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Articles tone

Use a more descriptive tone, where concepts and instructions are described and explained first. A prescriptive tone should be avoided.

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Prescriptive	Descriptive
How to deal with full /boot in case of EFI systemd-boot (gummiboot) can't store kernels, initrd and other big stuff on root partition, so switch to grub	Keeping kernels/initrd on the main partition For these instructions, GRUB will be required; systemd-boot cannot reference boot files from the root partition. This will differ from the default expectation of NixOS on EFI, where /boot/ is the ESP.

On the prescriptive side, the title doesn't describe the achieved end-result; the text tells the reader to switch to grub without explaining what the following (elided) configuration does.

Style guide

Titles

• Capitalize only the first word.

Universal sections

Some pages will have sections in common. It would be wise to ensure the titles are the same across all pages.

Section	Description
See also	References inside and outside the wiki. Prefer textual links with a description than naked URLs.
References	The last section, when needed, where sections will output the references.

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