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This works on humans too.

Normie: How do I do X in Linux?

Linux nerds: RTFM, noob.

vs.

Normie: Linux sucks because you can't do X.

Linux nerds: Actually, you can just apt-get install foo and...



All due respect, but that's the average experience in Arch Linux forums, unfortunately. At least we now have LLMs to RTFM for us.


From what I've heard I'm really happy that I never ventured too deep into the Arch forums.

The wiki however was (is?) absolutely fantastic. I used it as a general-purpose Linux wiki before I even switched to Arch, I distinctly remember the info on X Multi-Head being leagues above other resources I could find.


The Arch documentation is so good you don't need the forum. Man pages, however, are useless.


I'm sorry, but the existence of the forum, specially the newbie section is living proof that that is not the case.


Truly the most effective method to get an answer on the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...




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