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Re:Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux? by boomboomsubban on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:08PM (#26998633)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux? by thayne on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:48PM (#26999811)
Yes, but you do need to sometimes worry about your distro doing something different (like putting files in different locations).
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux? by boomboomsubban on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:21PM (#27000205)
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.
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