On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:33:37 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 20 Apr 2020 at 13:13:50 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:19:13 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > about Debian on non-Debian platforms (like StackExchange), the other one > > > being the Arch's wiki (significantly better than Debian's). > > > > Everyone loves the Arch wiki - I've long wondered why it's so much > > better than ours. Do they just have more community-minded users? > > It looks better curated, organised and structured. The latter is hardly > surprising when you read Debian's FAQ¹: > > Q) Wouldn't the wiki be more useful if it was better organized? > A) Possibly, but a structured wiki is largely a contradiction in terms. > It's more important to give it good content. In my experience, the content of the Arch wiki is ofter far superior to ours, not just the organization and structure. ... > So they have different philosophies. Perhaps Debian puts more effort > into the packages themselves, the installer, and documentation like > the Reference Manual, Release Notes etc, whereas AIUI Arch relies > more on its wiki. And I think Debian has a much broader scope: But the Debian documentation you mention doesn't cover a great deal of practical, real-world areas of system configuration, maintenance, and use, at least not in any useful, up-to-date way. The Arch wiki, in my experience, simply does a much better job at documenting this sort of stuff than any Debian documentation. Celejar