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I actually agree that the Arch docs are absolutely excellent in their level of detail, precision and helpfulness. I also think its possible for them to simultaneously be a gate keeping mechanism and stand by what I said
well if you stand by them, do you plan to present actual evidence of the alleged conspiracy or are you just making these statements to troll?
These types of posts are often more harfmul than helpful. ArchLinux already has proper installation instructions and those who cannot follow them aren't recommend to run it. The main installation issues the ArchLinux forum sees is from people following outdated third party installation guides.
Just as an example, this guide suddenly assumes that "yay" is installed. Even though AUR helpers like yay aren't officially recommended by ArchLinux and also aren't trivial to install.
I highly recommend people to use "yay" and similar helpers that make a lot of the problems simply go away.
What's everybody's favorite distribution on the Frame.Work 13? Getting it next week, and toying around with Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/Suse/NixOS/etc in VMs while waiting for it. I think I'll have to throw a coin (or just take Debian).
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these days I ask chatgpt for help to install arch instead of using the docs which are designed as a gate keeping mechanism to discourage the uninitiated by making them feel stupid. chatgpt just tells you how to do and turns out its really not that hard.
I really think that's unfair. The install docs are quite long but they try to give people options. It's not gate keeping to provide a lot of detail.
“Modern” is an utterly meaningless word and this blog uses it a lot.
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I actually agree that the Arch docs are absolutely excellent in their level of detail, precision and helpfulness. I also think its possible for them to simultaneously be a gate keeping mechanism and stand by what I said
well if you stand by them, do you plan to present actual evidence of the alleged conspiracy or are you just making these statements to troll?
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well if you stand by them, do you plan to present actual evidence of the alleged conspiracy or are you just making these statements to troll?
isn’t gatekeeping inherently subjective? it’s going to be hard to present objective evidence to a subjective expression of opinion.