Yes but… sometimes, sometimes, a video is so important.
I was trying to troubleshoot an issue where something just wasn’t working. All the text-based resources just showed the commands people were running and the steps they were taking. But, while I wasn’t getting errors, I was getting different results.
I really needed to know whether the output from the command I ran matched the output from the command when someone else ran it, because for me things broke after that one step. Nobody posting in text-based stuff was posting the output of the commands they were running, just the commands they were running and the files they were using.
So, I found someone doing a tutorial who did a video. They also were talking through the commands they were running, the process they were following, etc. But, BUT, they were sharing their screen as they did it, and for a second I was able to see the output they got, and that it was subtly different from what I was seeing, and that was the key to figuring out what was wrong.
Most of the time videos suck, the output isn’t searchable, the pacing is mostly too slow, you can’t copy and paste, etc. But, every once in a while, the fact that videos include a full replay of every thing the person does means that you can see where what you did diverges from what someone else did.
Yes but… sometimes, sometimes, a video is so important.
I was trying to troubleshoot an issue where something just wasn’t working. All the text-based resources just showed the commands people were running and the steps they were taking. But, while I wasn’t getting errors, I was getting different results.
I really needed to know whether the output from the command I ran matched the output from the command when someone else ran it, because for me things broke after that one step. Nobody posting in text-based stuff was posting the output of the commands they were running, just the commands they were running and the files they were using.
So, I found someone doing a tutorial who did a video. They also were talking through the commands they were running, the process they were following, etc. But, BUT, they were sharing their screen as they did it, and for a second I was able to see the output they got, and that it was subtly different from what I was seeing, and that was the key to figuring out what was wrong.
Most of the time videos suck, the output isn’t searchable, the pacing is mostly too slow, you can’t copy and paste, etc. But, every once in a while, the fact that videos include a full replay of every thing the person does means that you can see where what you did diverges from what someone else did.