There are times I wish Gmail had never implemented conversation view. The presentation of email threads in a flat chronological progression encourages users to reply the last message in the thread regardless of which message(s) they are actually responding to.

Because of this, it's not uncommon to see threads with replies four or more levels deep when most of the participants are using Gmail. The traditional use of a tree view to track the flow of conversations becomes useless in such cases. Add in Gmail's (unalterable) behavior of placing quotes at the end of replies and you have the recipe for a very frustrating experience when participating in long discussions.

If you just do a Google search without specifying what distro you are using the first hits you get will often be for the original documentation from the devs. Upstream documentation necessarily assumes the software is being built from source when no official binaries are distributed (i.e. frequently).

If you can't easily find documentation tailored to your particular system it's the distro's fault.