Oh there are plenty of solutions, but at this point, it would probably not help you at troubleshooting network. Never did me all that much good at any rate.

It's just Microsoft being terrible at online documentation for some reason. They're perfecty able to overwhelm you with information, but that information is completely devoid of context and finding a particular piece of info becomes a nightmare

I never really watch videos on youtube that explain anything. They always talk so slowly and if you fast forward you might miss the important point. A printed version on screen or on paper always gives faster access and better overview.

Googling also means that you waste time finding the right link. Sometimes the search terms are so often used in different contexts that search results are just flooded by less relevant things.

The biggest competitor to manuals are wikis. But then it is a matter of taste. I would probably prefer http://www.wikia.com/Video_Games over any manual because information there is better linked and more up to date than a printed version. Therefore I don't even have printed versions. But I could understand if someone would like to have one.

For more complicated things like some hardware support we are doing here, reading the fucking manual (pdf version) is mandatory. And technical books are nothing but manuals. And It's really nice to have one next to you, being able to read in it. Reading on normal screen for a prolonged time is tiring to many people.

So, the higher the quality, the more condensed the information and the longer you want to read in it: the better printed versions become compared to digital versions.

So very much this.

I hate googling the answer to something just to find it's a page empty other than an embedded Youtube video. It takes me about 20 seconds to scan a long page of text and images to find the sentence or two I actually want, while the same amount of information in video is around 20-30 minutes and no way to tell what they're on about without listening to the whole thing.