Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Text vs. video (was: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE) Date: 3 Sep 2025 04:18:25 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <107f281$35moq$4@dont-email.me> <107hlce$3pna1$9@dont-email.me> <107jlcc$8oas$1@dont-email.me> <107kg7t$d4vh$23@dont-email.me> <107n8un$12hcd$24@dont-email.me> <107p2ug$1gv4l$4@dont-email.me> <108v0r0$2lb19$1@dont-email.me> <1091cq5$36o1d$3@dont-email.me> <7isdolxkb.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1091j8k$38g52$1@dont-email.me> <1093ov5$3ophr$2@dont-email.me> <10946h1$3saln$1@dont-email.me> <1095kl1$8acs$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uDK9Mwe4x4rC2d0vpCKG4QcfOLOVi8yfizvEDCV0V9zE8/oboc Cancel-Lock: sha1:U6BUjiLQEPHF6LGkqELurq2es2Y= sha256:axX1ZwDNRitrivi3od7MqHmy1x2UNHBlju5klI5/ao0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73119 alt.comp.os.windows-11:23628 On Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:22:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Ah, someone else who feels the way I do. When I'm trying to search the > web for instructions on how to do something, I skip over videos in > favour of text descriptions (which means that I skip most hits). Videos are great -- when a picture is worth a thousand words. If I had a sudden strange desire to tie flies I'd look for a video. There's a related annoyance I sometimes hit when looking for a recipe. https://www.all-thats-jas.com/german-hunter-cabbage-stew/ At least this one has 'Jump to the recipe'. I really don't need a photo to identify cabbage and bacon.