Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by giancarlostoro on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:04AM (#44901273)

I remember long before I started using Arch I would google something nuanced for Ubuntu and there it was on the Arch Linux wiki with a “for Ubuntu users do this” section to fix whatever my issue was, this happened multiple times.

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Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by Dwedit on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:05PM (#44902099)

The special instructions for other distros could be at risk for being deleted, as "something that will not work on Arch as-is is not something we will be hosting on our site".

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Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by giancarlostoro on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:12PM (#44902214)

Feels like someone needs to make a generic Linux wiki then.

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Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by Xss3 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:02PM (#44902874)

The arch wiki could expand to support distro switching, with each distro having its own domain, and all that could link back to a general linux wiki. It'd be beautiful.

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Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by giancarlostoro on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:08PM (#44902944)

They already had it fine, now its out of their scope.

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Re:Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian by m463 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:38PM (#44903327)

I think one reason the arch wiki thrives is that it IS a generic linux wiki.

The arch wiki describes the upstream package.

I say this because Arch tries to use the upstream software as-is, and describes requirements and helps make configuration choices.

Other distributions tend to make the choices for you, configuring and modifying upstream to fit the distribution.

With respect to a wiki, this would be another layer of documentation to add. Describe the package, describe the distro, and explain the configuration choices.

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