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If only Debian had the documentation that Arch does. I know there's man and help, but the Debian wiki seems sparse and out of date, where the Arch wiki is incre
by stinkytaco 9y ago
If only Debian had the documentation that Arch does. I know there's man and help, but the Debian wiki seems sparse and out of date, where the Arch wiki is incredibly thorough. Sometimes I find myself at the Arch wiki to do things in Debian, but that doesn't always work. So I generally stick to Fedora, which at least sticks close to upstream.
- 0x0 9y agoMost packages have pretty good documentation about anything Debian-specific installed in /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/README.Debian[.gz] and /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/NEWS.Debian[.gz].
- passthejoe 9y agoEverybody on every Linux that isn't Arch either uses the Arch Wiki already, or should.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoNo matter what distro I use, I end up falling back on the Arch wiki and Gentoo wiki. I find the Gentoo wiki has the clearest information about specific things, and the Arch wiki has the clearest information on how to put them together.
- dguaraglia 9y agoThis used to be a thing! I remember the first time I installed Debian (back in the 2.0 days, I think) and it came with the "HOWTO" packages, which were essentially precursors to the semi free-format Arch wiki. That's how I learned how to configure kernel modules, what the difference between installing Linux using UMSDOS vs. a real partition, and even how ReiserFS worked. I really feel like easy internet access has taken good documentation away from us. It's too easy to Google for something, find some crappy blog with barely enough instructions to fix the problem. We've become reactive, rather than pro-actively educating ourselves.