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Comment by kingrazor | Hacker News Reader

I struggled quite a bit with Arch. I found the documentation quite confusing and it seemed incomplete, and getting support was quite difficult. Manjaro provided a very easy way to try Arch. If the process to install Arch had been easier, I wouldn't have bothered even looking for any derivatives of it.

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Arch's documentation is incomplete?

Arch has to have the most comprehensive documentation of all the distros. Even when I'm troubleshooting other distros I'll check the Arch wiki first!

Purely in regards to the initial install of the OS. I wound up having to go outside the Arch install wiki to other sources to figure out what to do. It seemed written for someone who already had a pretty thorough understanding of setting up partitions and file systems.

It looks valid precondition for target user.

I’m having trouble relating to this post. General linux questions on a search engine end up on the Arch Linux wiki quite often.

Really though, what Linux distro has better documentation than Arch?

Gentoo Linux? I still think their https://wiki.gentoo.org is still the best.

Their initial installation and setup documentation was what I found difficult. Having very little experience setting up boot partitions and file systems at the time, the instructions were quite vague. I wound up having to go outside the Arch install wiki in order to figure out what to do.

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