As an author of a book published by Packt, I understand this but still wish people could tone that down from, “none of the books…” to “some” but yeah. Mine has 5 stars in amazon and I know there are many which are well reviewed or have been very useful for my own learning.

were* any good

Heard it had a pop up in the front cover of Linus reaching off the page and slapping the reader saying just that

No, it reads “DON’T KERNEL PANIC”