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Re: Linux Toolbox

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I guess I just don’t really understand the “zine” movement of the last decade, especially with regards to technical information. Is this a left-brain/right-brain thing?

I know it’s completely irrational of me, but seeing something called a “zine” is offputting, since the central example of that term is usually a short political tabloid. (And it doesn’t even convey the information I expect from the “format noun”—zines are not usually illustrated!) I’d really rather see these called what they are: educational graphic novels . But I know why these end up getting called “zines”: it’s be…

> I’d really rather see these called what they are: educational graphic novels.

That’s quite a mouthful.

Re: Linux Toolbox

#12

I guess I just don’t really understand the “zine” movement of the last decade, especially with regards to technical information. Is this a left-brain/right-brain thing?

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/design-trends-introduction...

Common in art communities and smaller circulations. Just an easy way to bundle things together and circulate them. Making zines are "democratized" now so they're seeing a comeback

Re: Linux Toolbox

#14
This is fantastic! Tangentially related but I'd really like to learn such byte sized stuff about Linux and Linux tools. Anyone has any nice resources I, a grown up, can refer to?

Re: Linux Toolbox

#15

This is fantastic! Tangentially related but I'd really like to learn such byte sized stuff about Linux and Linux tools. Anyone has any nice resources I, a grown up, can refer to?

What do you mean? The article literally links to such resources. There's nothing non-grown-up any them.

Re: Linux Toolbox

#16

I guess I just don’t really understand the “zine” movement of the last decade, especially with regards to technical information. Is this a left-brain/right-brain thing?

> the “zine” movement of the last decade

You mean the come back? Zines were very popular in the 90s. We're just rediscovering them.

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