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For some reason, the Gentoo install of erlang put the man pages into man sections that ended in “erl”. For example, instead a directory named man3 for the 3rd man page section, it’s man3erl.
I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections.
~/.bashrc

alias erlman="man -S 1erl:3erl:4erl:6erl"

… it hasn’t crashed yet.
Honestly, I don’t think much more need be said. Programs run; the stuff I need to do any work I have runs. But overall, this isn’t the Windows I remember: crashing at least once a day, and always giving me that “omg, I’d better save this document lest the [...]