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Their wiki is what sold me on Arch. I ended up there solving most of my problems on other distros, and if they can make such a fine wiki, I figured they could make a great OS (which they did).


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ivanjermakovyesterday at 9:15 PM

Yep. Wiki and AUR completeness are hard to pass by.

duesabatiyesterday at 1:35 PM

Me too, I started with Debian but after a few weeks, I found myself being more on the Arch wiki than the Debian's one so I did the switch and never used any other distro.

I'm sorry to say this but Debian's documentation sucked a lot some years ago.

beepbooptheoryyesterday at 4:13 AM

I was definitely the same way at one point but it's worth mentioning that the wiki remains a valuable resource even if you aren't using Arch itself.

e.g., NixOS just links to the archwiki page here for help with systemd timers: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Systemd/Timers

Doublonyesterday at 3:32 AM

I came here to post a similar comment. I decided to use Arch because the documentation is amazing. And I wasn't disappointed. It's become my favorite distro.