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It's a great way to learn Linux.

But really, the documentation is the best of any GNU/Linux distribution, bar none. There are very few things I cannot figure out by going to the arch wiki.

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This may be the best thing about Arch. Their crowd-sourced documentation model covers a lot of corner cases and unique configuration that many other distributions cathedral model documentation lack. The wiki format also helps it keep up with the rolling nature of Arch. Even the Gentoo wiki links to the Arch wiki in a lot of scenarios.

For every Fedora release, the Documentation Project prepares a new version of the System Administrator's Guide[1] and of five other high-quality manuals. These manuals are usually up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive, and since they are maintained in the DocBook format (which is very superior to wikimarkup for technical documents), they can be converted into HTML (for the version on docs.fedoraproject.org), PDF (for printing or viewing in a PDF reader) and EPUB (so I can put the guides on a e-reader and read them comfortably). The documentation is even translated in multiple languages.

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/System_A...

Fedora is my preferred Linux distro, but when I'm looking for a solution or how-to on setting up, say MPD or bittorrent, I inevitably end up at the arch wiki.

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