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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 wonde

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 1y ago
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 1y ago
  Both Kagi and DuckDuckGo have search bangs (!aw) to search ArchWiki articles. I also have ArchWiki boosted in my Kagi settings.
tempfile 1y ago
Sounds worth reading. Is this the article you mean? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd
- rdlw 1y ago
  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 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
  - pkulak 1y ago
    https://archive.is/Mi9DP 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 1y ago
      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 1y ago
        I don’t. But for the few years I did, no manual intervention came even close to changing the entire init system.
fernandotakai 1y ago
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.

bo1024 1y ago

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 1y ago
Both Kagi and DuckDuckGo have search bangs (!aw) to search ArchWiki articles. I also have ArchWiki boosted in my Kagi settings.

tempfile 1y ago

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

rdlw 1y ago
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 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
- pkulak 1y ago
  https://archive.is/Mi9DP 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 1y ago
    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 1y ago
      I don’t. But for the few years I did, no manual intervention came even close to changing the entire init system.

fernandotakai 1y ago

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.