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I'm not so sure that we're in the minority, those of us that prefer text over video. I just think that it's a lot easier to sell video than text and that subscriptions to learning services are the tech equivalent of Gym subscriptions.

I have a Linux Academy subscription and I find that the labs are really useful (they do range in quality to be fair) and that the courses are next to useless but, and this is a big but, the text content that the courses provide gives you, with the labs, probably as much as the videos.

Idk, maybe I'm doing the videos wrong or have the wrong expectations.



> I'm not so sure that we're in the minority, those of us that prefer text over video.

We are. Just the fact that every modern OS uses GUIs should tell you something ;-)




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