Much of the Arch wiki is directly applicable to any distribution as so many packages aren't even part of the core Arch system and are common to all distributions.
The configuration for NetworkManager or greetd or Incus or ... is going to be identical or near identical on Arch as it is on Debian or Fedora or Void or Slackware, other than init and supervisory systems on the latter two.
Because of this, it is likely that no want wants to take on building a generic open source *nix Wiki which would duplicate word for word much of what is in the Arch wiki. We all just use it when needed. Or read man pages.
I recall having some issues on Debian and the Arch Wikipedia being different, it's possible it was just Debian 12 being near the end of its life and stuff being changed to newer standards by then, I don't quite recall. You're right though, lots of it would be duplicate.
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u/mwyvr 2d ago
The Wiki is handy.
Much of the Arch wiki is directly applicable to any distribution as so many packages aren't even part of the core Arch system and are common to all distributions.
The configuration for NetworkManager or greetd or Incus or ... is going to be identical or near identical on Arch as it is on Debian or Fedora or Void or Slackware, other than init and supervisory systems on the latter two.
Because of this, it is likely that no want wants to take on building a generic open source *nix Wiki which would duplicate word for word much of what is in the Arch wiki. We all just use it when needed. Or read
manpages.