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    [–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 138 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I’ve found Lemmy’s Linux community to be extremely helpful I hope it stays this way

    [–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It's one of the things that I like the most about lemmy over reddit. The reddit linux community was toxic, insular and gatekeepy, even as a moderately experienced linux user I had difficulty getting help.

    "Learn how to Google noob!"

    Fuck sakes, I just spent several hours deep diving forums and Web search results looking for an answer to my question, and the only thing I could find that was exactly my problem was concluded by OP editing their post to say "Ah, never mind, figured it out." And not including the solution.....

    [–] Liz@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It should be legal to hunt that person down and clamp a lobster to their nipples.

    [–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

    Oh there's a special place in hell, where Satan from the movie Little Nicky is, waiting for these people....with lobsters and a pineapple.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

    probably because lemmy's pretty small compared to places like reddit and because everyone sees the same content with the same sorting, places like reddit make a few "help" requests visible and make them feel unimportant

    [–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I asked about servers once and they told me don't host a server under any circumstance.

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

    "If you don't know to do X, don't even bother learning."

    [–] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

    "Don't learn anything, just give up." Great, thanks, guys.

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

    We should do our part in reporting unhelpful users. Especially those that recommend Arch or more advanced distros to beginners.

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