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:::::It can get complicated in the end. If the goal of this wiki is focusing on explaining how to accomplish something in nix-specific way, it would be beneficial to just link Arch Wiki that covers nearly everything when on this matter. Or if i am misunderstanding the purpose of `nixos` wiki, then we need to provide more details in this section. For example, btrfs page does not cover fstrim and `discard=async`, so we need to either be exhaustive, or not go beyond the sufficient minimum. Please, coordinate my understanding [[User:Pigeon|Pigeon]] ([[User talk:Pigeon|talk]]) 18:03, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

::::::Without knowing literally anything about this context, I am seconding @[[User:Pigeon|Pigeon]]'s point here, more information is better than less information. At the very least let's write up an article/section on what the two discards do, and link it here. [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 22:32, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

:::::::In my opinion, the nixos wiki should document concepts on the nix ecosystem and link to official sources for anything that isn't in the nix ecosystem. The goal here is not repeat information that is documented elsewhere. More information is not always better as it can clutter the wiki page and require more maintenance to keep the information in sync with official sources.

:::::::In this example, we should give a brief description of what discard is, link to the official source, and show how to use the discard mount option on NixOS. [[User:Pigs|Pigs]] ([[User talk:Pigs|talk]]) 05:15, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

::::::::We are in principle on the same page here. What I mean by ''more information is always better'' is that other editors that are not subject matter experts in this area (e.g. me) can always edit an article ''down'' (or move information to subpages, etc.) to make the page more readable. But we'll ''almost'' never have the knowledge to add information in.

::::::::Regarding links to the Arch Wiki, my ''hunch'' is if the Arch Wiki needed to have info about a topic, it's important enough for a user that we might need to have info too. Maybe not in the same for, maybe not to the same extent, but at least ''something''.

::::::::Thanks for your awesome work on this! [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 15:35, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

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 :::::It can get complicated in the end. If the goal of this wiki is focusing on explaining how to accomplish something in nix-specific way, it would be beneficial to just link Arch Wiki that covers nearly everything when on this matter. Or if i am misunderstanding the purpose of `nixos` wiki, then we need to provide more details in this section. For example, btrfs page does not cover fstrim and `discard=async`, so we need to either be exhaustive, or not go beyond the sufficient minimum. Please, coordinate my understanding [[User:Pigeon|Pigeon]] ([[User talk:Pigeon|talk]]) 18:03, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
 ::::::Without knowing literally anything about this context, I am seconding @[[User:Pigeon|Pigeon]]'s point here, more information is better than less information. At the very least let's write up an article/section on what the two discards do, and link it here. [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 22:32, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
+:::::::In my opinion, the nixos wiki should document concepts on the nix ecosystem and link to official sources for anything that isn't in the nix ecosystem. The goal here is not repeat information that is documented elsewhere. More information is not always better as it can clutter the wiki page and require more maintenance to keep the information in sync with official sources.
+:::::::In this example, we should give a brief description of what discard is, link to the official source, and show how to use the discard mount option on NixOS. [[User:Pigs|Pigs]] ([[User talk:Pigs|talk]]) 05:15, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
+::::::::We are in principle on the same page here. What I mean by ''more information is always better'' is that other editors that are not subject matter experts in this area (e.g. me) can always edit an article ''down'' (or move information to subpages, etc.) to make the page more readable. But we'll ''almost'' never have the knowledge to add information in.
+::::::::Regarding links to the Arch Wiki, my ''hunch'' is if the Arch Wiki needed to have info about a topic, it's important enough for a user that we might need to have info too. Maybe not in the same for, maybe not to the same extent, but at least ''something''.
+::::::::Thanks for your awesome work on this! [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 15:35, 8 June 2025 (UTC)