As a reader, I find screenshots and text much easier and faster to follow than watching a long screencast
This. I absolutely despise video as a medium for learning something, especially something technical. This looks really nice and I hope it's a huge success.
When you quickly need to know how to do something, search google and then find the first hit to be a page with nothing but a video on it which, painfully slowly, tells you how to do it. Something which would have taken 1 or 2 lines of text, dragged out over a 10 minute video. Even more lovely if it contains config files or code which, ofcourse, you cannot copy/paste. I am not an aggressive person, but...
It's just a matter of personal preference. Videos are good for some and text for others. It's good to have choice and understandably frustrating when your preferred choice isn't there.
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This. I absolutely despise video as a medium for learning something, especially something technical. This looks really nice and I hope it's a huge success.
When you quickly need to know how to do something, search google and then find the first hit to be a page with nothing but a video on it which, painfully slowly, tells you how to do it. Something which would have taken 1 or 2 lines of text, dragged out over a 10 minute video. Even more lovely if it contains config files or code which, ofcourse, you cannot copy/paste. I am not an aggressive person, but...
It's just a matter of personal preference. Videos are good for some and text for others. It's good to have choice and understandably frustrating when your preferred choice isn't there.