[arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

Doug Newgard scimmia at archlinux.info
Thu Sep 22 02:36:53 UTC 2016


On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:01:55 -0400
Dave via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 21/09/16 at 08:36pm, Dave via arch-general wrote
> > This will only alienate new users that are unwilling to read man pages and
> > the
> > community provided documentation, ie., people for whom Arch is the wrong
> > choice
> > anyway…  
> 
> 
> As a new user of Arch, I think this attitude is incorrect as well as
> harmful to Arch.

I think putting a list of commands in the wiki is much, much more harmful to
Arch. Arch is a niche distro, not meant to be something grandma installs
because someone told her it was the thing to do.


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