The helpfulness of the ArchWiki for people who don't use Arch can't be stated enough. As a user of several distros, this is my go-to documentation regardless of which distro I'm working with.

It's (almost) like the MDN of Linux.

I'd say the MDN of linux is man-pages, which is browsable online at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html

Arch Linux also has a man page browser (with IMO a slightly nicer interface, especially on mobile), which includes all packages in the default Arch repositories (but not the AUR): https://man.archlinux.org

I don't agree. Man pages are specific to distro and version of the command. It's always better to read manpages which are present on your particular distro.

I use arch specifically because of the arch wiki

To add, there are very few "Arch-isms" beyond package installation. Sometimes you'll be instructed to confugure something up that your distro has already preconfigured, and very rarely a new version of something will change enough to make the guide unhelpful with an old version. Most of it should translate fine though.

And if you use duckduckgo, !aw.

Yes, but you do need to sometimes worry about your distro doing something different (like putting files in different locations).

It may just be my ignorance, but those should be very rare. The only thing I can think of offhand is some parts of the bootloader, anything else you interact with should have files in the standard config locations.

In this vein: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page

Thanks in large part to a few contributors who maintain bots to help maintain strong consistent style and deduplicate information across the wiki. (You know who you are!)

No doubt Arch Linux wiki is the one of the best resource for Linux.

There really is no doubt about.

Only paralleled, in excellence, by it's namesake dist ;)

Couldn’t agree more :)

It’s full of knowledge. Basically a treasure of knowledge.

I wish the wiki had a bit more redundancy and TL;DRs. Way too often you are "required" to understand some related issue completely to follow "the arch way". Problem is, this stacks indefinitely. IMO premises should be explained shortly. I want to understand the why, without understanding linux in every detail every time.

Came here to say this, and am glad this is at the top!