I was hearing this song in my head and at the same time into a manual. 1+1= 
I asked AIAIAI to create two versions…
James Brown: This Is a Man(ual) World
This is a man(ual) world…
This is a man(ual) world…
But it wouldn’t be nothing, no nothing,
Without a man(ual).
You see, the coders made the kernel,
And the hackers made the tools,
They built the shells and the pipelines,
And the golden command-line rules.
This is a man(ual) world…
But it wouldn’t be nothing,
Without a man(ual).
Now you’ve got your distro spinnin’,
From Arch down to Manjaro too,
But before you go and break it,
There’s one thing you gotta do:
RTFM.
Read the friendly manual.
Type man, understand the plan,
Let the pages school you.
They made a tool called man,
So you can read what the tool can do,
It’s a man man manual,
And it’s all there waitin’ for you.
Flags and switches, options and pipes,
Permissions, paths, and shells,
If you don’t read the documentation,
You’re headed straight to dependency hell.
This is a man(ual) world…
But it wouldn’t be nothing,
Without a man(ual).
So before you blame the system,
Before you rage and yell,
Just open up that terminal,
And let the manual tell.
RTFM.
Yeah.
. HipHop
A fresh parody — same Linux/manual premise, but written with an early electro / NYC street cadence inspired by the era around Mantronix:
Man(ual) World — Old-Skool Terminal Mix
Yo…
808 hummin’, CRT glow, midnight compile on the terminal show.
This a man(ual) world, command-line land,
No mouse in sight, just keys in your hand.
From Arch to Manjaro — same old school,
If you don’t read docs you a dangerous fool.
Because it ain’t nothin’…
No it ain’t nothin’…
Without a man(ual).
You typed sudo fast, didn’t check the page,
Now your bootloader gone and your system in a cage.
You yell “Linux broke!” — nah that ain’t factual,
You skipped the knowledge in the man man manual.
RTFM — that’s the law of the street,
Section 8 in the page got the answer you need.
Flags got meaning, switches got power,
Wrong dash one time — reinstall for an hour.
Kernel drop, package sync, pacman flow,
Dependency graph in the repo.
But wisdom ain’t magic and hacks ain’t luck,
You read the documentation or you stay stuck.
This a man(ual) world…
Console command world…
Wouldn’t be nothin’,
Without a man(ual).
man grep, man mount, learn the syntax right,
Pipes run clean when your arguments tight.
Real operators don’t guess — they know,
Every option explained in the scroll below.
So don’t spam forums, don’t pastebin blame,
The answer was local the whole damn game.
Open the page, let the knowledge unfurl —
Welcome to the manual world.
RTFM.
Yeah — old school.
