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by Arnavion 1967 days ago
>You have to know that you're looking for `systemd.service` in the first place.

Yeah, because that's the thing you want help with.

No shit `man service` and `man systemd` aren't going to give you help for systemd services that easily.

Also, apparently you assume the user is simultaneously stupid enough to not put "systemd" and "service" in the same search query, but is meant to know to visit `https://systemd.software/service` even though it too contains both those words.

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> Yeah, because that's the thing you want help with.

No it isn't. I, as a power user and only as a novice system administrator, want to "run a program at startup".

It's not clear to me that it's `systemd` that manages that. It's not clear to me that it's specifically `systemd.service` that I need to find help with.

> No shit `man service` and `man systemd` aren't going to give you help for systemd services that easily.

But... why???

> Also, apparently you assume the user is simultaneously stupid enough to not put "systemd" and "service" in the same search query

Yes, I do assume that because it describes me. I'm sorry you think I'm stupid though. Get off your high horse and start thinking of people with different experiences than yours.

> but is meant to know to visit `https://systemd.software/service` even though it too contains both those words.

Searching Google for `systemd service` puts a link to freedesktop.org with a very un-memorable URL. I didn't even understand that "freedesktop.org" is the authoritive site until a few weeks into learning systemd. I definitely won't remember to type in "freedesktop.org/software/" before trying to find systemd documentation. And I don't want to have to use Google as a relay every time I want to read the documentation for systemd.

So I made a site that does it for me.