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I've always found the FreeBSD docs and environment to be more coherent than most Linux distros. The manual is really good at covering things you want to do. With Linux, I feel like I'm looking at a random blog post more often.


Indeed. There is no linux, just a bunch of distros. Each is too small to support a meaningful documentation project beyond the basics.


The commercial linux distros have great documentation in my experience. What issues do you have with those?


That has not been my experience beyond fundamental aspects.

Even if a distro had fantastic documentation, the issue of fragmentation would still remain. You can't just find people who "know linux", but you need people who know this distro.

Then there's the issue of third party apps that may be packaged and tested for some distros and not others. The fragmentation is an issue in itself.




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