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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do y’all know how many times I got https://wiki.archlinux.org/ as an answer to my question? Used to piss me off but then I learned how to use the wiki. Lol. Thanks arch iRc!

[–] WindowsEnjoyer 17 points 1 year ago

Arch Wiki is invaluable at this point.

And I don't mean just Arch Linux (BtwOS), I mean countless amount of sysadmins, platforms engineers, developers, SREs and so on that uses it.