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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 by chungy on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:03PM (#26799924)
The Arch Wiki is alright if you run Arch, but I definitely prefer well-written and fully up-to-date manpages from the offset. For starters, it doesn't require me to open a web browser first; it also doesn't depend on me having network connectivity at any particular time.

My take is definitely different from GP: I find FreeBSD to have a much better documentation story compared to Linux (even Arch).

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:50PM (#26802053)
> The Arch Wiki is alright if you run Arch

No, it's pretty broadly useful; I've used it on at least Ubuntu, Fedora, and centos. It helps that Arch is pretty close to upstream, so docs are usually pretty generic.

I can't disagree about offline docs and the extraordinary quality of BSD manpages, though:)

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 by avhception on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:13AM (#26807313)
I've even used the arch wiki when setting up stuff on FreeBSD, because it covers a whole lot of 3rd party software - some of which runs on FreeBSD as well.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 by jhvkjhk on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:48AM (#26803047)
Yeah I see Arch Wiki as Linux Wiki when I’m using Ubuntu.(and Ask Ubuntu as Ask Linux)
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