How else are new users supposed to find out? Man pages are often poorly written and unhelpful. Indeed, calling the utility 'man' instead of 'help' is unhelpful.
You have got to be kidding! Man pages are amazing - often you can figure out what is going on or what niche switch you want to use much quicker with a man page than Google.
I agree; I use Linux infrequently, and I've always found the man pages to be chock-full of details on how to use particular switches, but lacking in examples. I usually have to read them very closely just to get to the point of "look, I just want the basic usage on this tool so I can do X, the thing the tool is made for, rather than X -q -m -p."
