README: Arch Linux Beginners' Guide

Misfit138 · 2008-02-08 22:35:54

New to Arch? Having trouble with successfully installing, or want to research how to do so before jumping in?
Head over to the Arch Linux Beginners' Guide
Many questions and problems can be resolved, or completely avoided, by carefully reading and following the guide.
Welcome to Arch!

peets · 2008-02-09 06:00:21

I think the beginner's guide should be referenced on the wiki's main page. Who has the power to make this change?

Snowman · 2008-02-09 08:54:25

peets wrote:

I think the beginner's guide should be referenced on the wiki's main page. Who has the power to make this change?

It's already referenced.

FTR, I have the power to modify the wiki's main page.

Stoffi · 2008-02-09 09:07:31

maybe it should be a bit clearer?
set it in bold or something?
I just tried to find it there, and it wasn't too easy to find.

I skipped the part where it is refeered, and started to look in the categories below.

scorpyn · 2008-02-09 10:15:00

Stoffi wrote:

maybe it should be a bit clearer?
set it in bold or something?
I just tried to find it there, and it wasn't too easy to find.
I skipped the part where it is refeered, and started to look in the categories below.

Actually I didn't even think it was there until you let me know where to look

So yeah making it bold would be nice for those of us that are blind

(I knew about the page, but not about it being on the front page)

Last edited by scorpyn (2008-02-09 10:15:57)

peets · 2008-02-09 17:14:24

Oops, it's right in the first sentence on the page! My mistake. Snowman, maybe it should also be in there right under "Getting and installing Arch"?

Misfit138 · 2008-02-10 21:29:30

peets wrote:

Oops, it's right in the first sentence on the page! My mistake. Snowman, maybe it should also be in there right under "Getting and installing Arch"?

Implemented. Moved Installation Guides to the top under bold heading.
Feedback welcome.

peets · 2008-02-11 01:46:00

Thanks Misfit138. It seemed more obvious, but maybe that's just because I was looking for it. Is there a reason the font for "Installation Guide" is bigger than the ones for "Helpful Places", "Wiki News", etc? If not, it would be nice to have them even.

Misfit138 · 2008-02-11 01:47:47

peets wrote:

Thanks Misfit138. It seemed more obvious, but maybe that's just because I was looking for it. Is there a reason the font for "Installation Guide" is bigger than the ones for "Helpful Places", "Wiki News", etc? If not, it would be nice to have them even.

Done.

peets · 2008-02-11 06:17:51

Coolz. Many thanks, Misfit 138. Arch is now a little bit more newbie-friendly.

Arch may be the newbie-friendliest distro around. Instead of making a ready-made "user-friendly" pre-packaged distro, we have an excellent wiki and friendly forums. I think this deserves to be called newbie-friendly.

Stoffi · 2008-02-11 07:20:31

I like the changes to the wiki frontpage!
I am myself a newbie to linux, and I agree that arch is a bit newbiefriendly, but only after changing my mindset a bit.
Reading manpages and so on was very unnatural, and it is a change on mindset nececary to make.

I will reinstall my arch installation when netcfg2 makes it out of testing, then it will be great to have the beginners-guide.
I didn't find it when I installed arch, (allthough I knew it was there, and maybe didn't search hard enough.) so I had many problems after
installation with locales and so on..

Zer0 · 2008-02-11 20:04:05

Maybe a link on Arch's homepage is in order!
The install guide has a link on the left hand side! Why not put The beginners guide right under it as it wouldn't take up much "real estate"
It seems to fit nicely anyways. It's the first place I looked when I was new to Arch!

Documentation:

* Installation Guide
* Beginners Guide
* Wiki

Last edited by Zer0 (2008-02-11 20:04:45)

Misfit138 · 2008-02-11 20:36:20

Zer0 wrote:

Maybe a link on Arch's homepage is in order!
The install guide has a link on the left hand side! Why not put The beginners guide right under it as it wouldn't take up much "real estate"
It seems to fit nicely anyways. It's the first place I looked when I was new to Arch!
Documentation:
* Installation Guide
* Beginners Guide
* Wiki

I think only a site admin can edit the main page; I do not have privileges to do so. Dusty or Rasat will most likely have to tackle that. I'll contact one of them tonight.

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