OP1: Hi everyone, I really want to do "random", but I'm not sure how to do it. I tried "this" and I did "that" and I even applied "this", but nothing seems to work.

OP2: Oh, you just need to do "that" and you can do it like "this."

OP1: That is super helpful, thank you very much.

Linux Support Forums (LSF): Wait. What just happen?!

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@0x75BCD15@c.im

You said it yourself, that post was very much edited.

The big thing I dislike about Linux Support Forums is how they tend to gate keep and even shame people. Then when someone finally has had enough, and they call people out, those same people will go back, edit their post, and make it seem like you're the bad guy with their now, newly sensible and newly reasonable comments.

You'll notice (in my post history), I'm still having a few minor issues, but am I being helped? No. Anyone, right now, could shut me up, and shut me down, but folks rather go on with the nonsense, which only further validates my claim that AI can be more helpful.

And as you said, even after they edited their post, they still could not help themselves.

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In fact, the NixOS Community, continues to prove exactly why AI will replace Support Forums.

An AI is not going to troll you, or judge you, or criticize you. An AI will answer your questions, and not gate keep you.

Yes, sometimes that AI is not always correct, but neither are people. At least the AI will point you in the right direction.

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@elebertus@mastodon.social

If more people thought like that, it would be great!

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@zstg@fedia.social

That is one of the cool things about NixOS, is you can do things differently. True, the documentation is poorly written and seldom kept up to date. But the underline ability to make it your own is there.

The problem is their support community suffers, a common problem many Linux Support Communities suffer from. Far too many jerks who are unhelpful and gate keep. You spend a good amount of your time trying to figure something out, going to the forums as a last resort, and you damn regret doing so shortly after submitting your post.

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@starlight To NixOS's credit, most of the people here on the Fediverse are friendly and helpful. There are good people who use NixOS.

But they're not on the community forums. And if they are, I never noticed them or encountered them.

That said, it is still a good OS.

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You all should just delete the account. I'm not coming back.

Seriously, my whole account history was either me fixing my own problems, myself, by myself. Or trying to avoid not tripping on a landmine with someone who wanted to debate what I was doing.

ChatGPT proved more helpful.

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I am likely going to be banned from the NixOs Community Forum, as I posted this as my reply to someone. - I do not even care.

Why?

If you look at my post history, I solved my own problems. All I ever got was people criticizing and never actually providing solutions. Which is what most people looking of help want - A solution (or at best a working tip, beyond a vague cryptic statement).

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@Okanogen@mastodon.social

Toxicity is not proportional to size for the community, or development. I have witnessed both new developments, trying to gain momentum, and old developments that old school users swore by, act the same regardless.

It seems truly to be the only universal standard within the Linux ecosystem. Generally speaking, Support Forums, suck. They're filled with unhelpful people who would rather argue, debate, and gate keep more times than not.

There are, of course, a few exceptions, but not many.

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I also dread people who ask "why" you want to do something.

Because more often than not, "why" is going to turn into a debate, instead of the person trying to better understand my goal. "Why" is often used as a gateway to tell me you'd do it differently, completely ignoring that I want to do something, this way, without your feedback on the matter.

It would be so different if the person replied with, "well here is how you do it your way, but I would consider doing it this way, and here is why" -- That would be helpful and productive. I would welcome that, very much.

Instead, you get, "Why" followed by, "this is how I do it, and I am going to ignore your method of doing it". And their method likely is incompatible with my other random things I've already have working, and so they likely lead to another thing and another thing and another -- It is my PC, not yours, and I'll use it however I like.

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