On: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

[samgranieri]

I"m still absolutely floored with how good the archwiki is. I can't hype it up enough. I really did't know what I was doing with systemd until I read that wonderful article, and also, the link to why the arch maintainer switched that distro to systemd made my accept the change to it.

[bo1024 → samgranieri]

When I was starting with Linux (15 years ago) with Fedora, Ubuntu, etc., for all of my questions I kept finding answers on the Arch wiki. So eventually I just switched to Arch, so the answers would always work.

That was an era when searching the Internet worked. Come to think of it, I haven't had Arch wiki pop up in my search results in years.

[frantathefranta → bo1024]

Both Kagi and DuckDuckGo have search bangs (!aw) to search ArchWiki articles. I also have ArchWiki boosted in my Kagi settings.

[tempfile → samgranieri]

Sounds worth reading. Is this the article you mean? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd

[rdlw → tempfile]

That's the systemd article, and this is the forum post explaining why arch moved to systemd: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530

[pkulak → rdlw]

https://archive.is/Mi9DP

Scroll down to the long post by tomegun.

I kinda get the animosity now. I wasn't really using Linux at the time, but if I was, and my system was running great, and then I had a list of complicated instructions I had to perform to change my init system... I'd probably be peeved off.

[Ferret7446 → pkulak]

Then you should not use Arch. Manual invention is normal and in line with Arch's philosophy of making things simpler for the maintainers.

[pkulak → Ferret7446]

I don’t. But for the few years I did, no manual intervention came even close to changing the entire init system.

[fernandotakai → samgranieri]

almost the same reason i started using arch: i wanted to install linux into my macbook, and the only wiki with enough info to make it work was arch's.