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Yep, I use Arch Wiki as a starting point even for NixOS issues, when they're not strictly Nix-specific. Before then, Gentoo wiki was the go-to, but Arch Wiki has surpassed it by this point.

I also think that the AUR is a great source of information too, since PKGBUILDs are really easy to understand and useful for determining how a program can be built and packaged, and you can go and use this to make other kinds of packages for a given program.

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Yes, once you get to the competence level of being able to map over information from the arch wiki or GitHub issues your experience becomes a lot smoother.

Yes! Gentoo was my first Linux distro, and I am grateful for the wiki. It made my hard ride with Linux — it’s been 15 years now — highly enjoyable

Same. I'm hoping the push the Nix documentation team is pushing right now sets the path to something like the Arch wiki for NixOS.

So, basically like the Guix docs then

The Guix actually docs look like the current Nix docs, which I presume is not a coincidence given the nature of Guix. These are not bad docs by any means, but the Arch wiki is a wealth of documentation that goes far beyond the norms, documenting all sorts of things that are not part of the base system, including quirks with specific hardware and software. There's nothing wrong with the docs Nix and Guix have today, they're just not really the same thing as Arch Wiki. NixOS has an unofficial wiki, which is a bit more apples-to-apples, but it's relatively bare for now.

That having been said, I think I'd have a bit of trouble adopting the Guix system though, because I rely pretty heavily on the NixOS options search, and it seems Guix at this moment only has a package search.

You can also search system services / facilities:

    guix system search ...

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