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https://support.apple.com/macos
A lot of this is built into your Mac also, at Help > Mac Help in the Finder.
For those who prefer physical books, I've always found the "Missing Manual" series to be excellent.
Just sayin'.
This is Apple we are talking about. If you built a knowledge-base like this on your own time and for the right reasons I bet they send a DMCA.
Better: We need to stop using undocumented proprietary systems like macOS.
macOS is the best desktop OS going, for the moment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In contrast to undocumented free (open) systems? Documentation is an issue irrespective of prorietariness(??!) of a system. I welcome this initiative. (Yes I know there are examples of documentation excellence to be found in some free/open systems. You can advocate their use whilst also having well documented macOs.)
I mean, I'm not the target audience and I don't have the attachment to OSX as a platform, but if I was gonna expend the energy to document a thing, I'd hope it goes towards a good cause and isn't just free labor for like the richest corp I can think of from the top of my head.
Impact is a big factor in how useful an activity is, even if it's tied to a big company.
Better: We need to stop using undocumented proprietary systems like macOS.
In contrast to undocumented free (open) systems? Documentation is an issue irrespective of prorietariness(??!) of a system. I welcome this initiative. (Yes I know there are examples of documentation excellence to be found in some free/open systems. You can advocate their use whilst also having well documented macOs.)
Windows and Android had much better documentation than Linux for a long time.
That is one of the major reason of why they are where they are nowadays.
We have various ongoing efforts to document and improve the macOS experience for users. If you have a macOS question, you'll likely find the answer there.
> Yet Apple’s documentation for users and those supporting users has all but dried up You and me we both RTFM, but the population at large? Not so much. When computers were in their early days more of the people that used them were willing and even interested to learn a lot about what was going on. Now the computer is a tool used by most people to do specific tasks. Just like I don't care to learn how to fix my car t…
Sure, the average person doesn't have Activity Monitor (or top) open, but they could be walked through that process when their fans blare and battery life nosedives.
Better: We need to stop using undocumented proprietary systems like macOS.
And use what? Windows spies on you and they call it a feature. Linux is a great server OS but a really terrible choice on the desktop. I'm not convinced that free software documentation is any better, either. macOS is the best desktop OS going, for the moment.
This is a very subjective claim. Maybe a long long time ago you could say this, but not the case today.
> "not convinced that free software documentation is any better"
That's beside the point. If that were true, that is an argument for focusing a community effort at improving documentation for a free desktop. And actually with linux the problem is not as much a lack of documentation, but rather that the documentation is a little overwhelming, because it is just too specific or technical. (ever typed "man" something in a terminal?)
Just in case no-one read the leaflets that came with their new Mac, Apple has fairly comprehensive macOS documentation online: https://support.apple.com/macos A lot of this is built into your Mac also, at Help > Mac Help in the Finder. For those who prefer physical books, I've always found the "Missing Manual" series to be excellent.