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I don't see any problem with screenshots. I don't even understand the issue here. It's a strange complaint, be.

Depending on the problem, the environment, the frequency of the issue and the resources available, a screenshot is sometimes easier to capture. This is especially true in the case of complex terminal output or any form of remote console/KVM/out-of-band management.

More than that, the screenshot is there to illustrate a point-in-time condition. Searchability is a non-issue.

I use code blocks and screen captures in nearly all of my questions here. Sometimes it's to illustrate a point. Sometimes it's absolutely critical to describing the problem. Very rarely are the contents of such an image necessary for search reasons. Sometimes text is the only appropriate method.

Let's say I'm trying to describe the state of the storage appliance I'm working on... Which looks better? Which makes more sense? Copy/paste is tricky, given the refresh rate. A screenshot of the relevant window does the job. Neither have important searchable text.

┌nmon─13g─────────────────────Hostname=san2─────────Refresh= 2secs ───18:40.40───────────────────────────┐
│ CPU Utilisation ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│                           +-------------------------------------------------+                          │
│CPU  User%  Sys% Wait% Idle|0          |25         |50          |75       100|                          │
│ 1   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 2   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 3   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 4   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 5   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 6   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 7   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 8   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│ 9   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│10   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│11   3.0   0.5   0.0   96.5|U >                                              |                          │
│12   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│13   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│14   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│15   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│16   0.0   0.0   0.0  100.0| >                                               |                          │
│                           +-------------------------------------------------+                          │
│Avg  0.2   0.1   0.0   99.7| >                                               |                          │
│                           +-------------------------------------------------+                          │
│ Memory Stats ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│                RAM     High      Low     Swap                                                          │
│ Total MB     32035.1     -0.0     -0.0  32755.0                                                        │
│ Free  MB      6578.1     -0.0     -0.0  32755.0                                                        │
│ Free Percent    20.5%   100.0%   100.0%   100.0%                                                       │
│             MB                  MB                  MB                                                 │
│                      Cached=   688.1     Active=   471.5                                               │
│ Buffers=    71.6 Swapcached=     0.0  Inactive =   601.5                                               │
│ Dirty  =     0.1 Writeback =     0.0  Mapped   =    43.2                                               │
│ Slab   =    90.0 Commit_AS =  1607.7 PageTables=     7.9                                               │
│ Kernel Stats ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│ RunQueue              1   Load Average    CPU use since boot time                                      │
│ ContextSwitch     525.2    1 mins  0.22    Uptime Days=  0 Hours= 7 Mins=33                            │
│ Forks               5.0    5 mins  0.20    Idle   Days=  5 Hours= 0 Mins= 9                            │
│ Interrupts        356.3   15 mins  0.28    Average CPU use=-1491.10%                                   │
│ Disk I/O ──/proc/diskstats────mostly in KB/s─────Warning:contains duplicates───────────────────────────│
│DiskName Busy    Read    Write       Xfers   Size  Peak%  Peak-RW    InFlight                           │
│sda        0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%      10.0KB/s   0                              │
│sda1       0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%      10.0KB/s   0                              │
│sda2       0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%       0.0KB/s   0                              │
│sda5       0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%       0.0KB/s   0                              │
│sdb        0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%       0.0KB/s   0                              │
│sdb1       0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%       0.0KB/s   0                              │
│sdb9       0%      0.0      0.0KB/s    0.0   0.0KB    0%       0.0KB/s   0                              │
│Totals Read-MB/s=0.0      Writes-MB/s=0.0      Transfers/sec=0.0                                        │
│────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│                                                                                                        │
│                                                                                                        │
│                                                                                                        │
│                                                                                                        │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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