Post #1641947

@peteorrall @grahamperrin @jwallen I hear this a lot. I do not see the benefits myself. I think the reasons are interrelated. # The docs TBH, when I am installing or configuring a new OS, I don't have time to sit and read a manual. (Note: I speak as someone who spent 10% of my full-time working life _writing manuals_.) When something doesn't work, or I need to know how to do it, I Google it. Small bite-size pages are 10x (or 100x) more use to me than book. The Arch wiki is more use than a handbook _even when I am not using Arch_. The wealth of Linux info makes it more use than any 1 book. # The "single complete OS" Nice idea, but mostly fails in practice. I use Xfce, & Firefox, & Pandoc, & dozens of other FOSS tools. Most work on FreeBSD. They are not part of the "single complete OS", though. That means they mostly aren't in the docs. The "it's an integrated whole" thing isn't so much an objective fact as it's a viewpoint, that only applies to insiders. For outsiders, there's no clear line. It's an arbitrary grey zone & what it really feels like is that 75% of the time when you look for help you get told "that's not part of Core, go away."