• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Linux Support Communities are a trillion times more welcoming, kind and understanding of new people today than they were 10 and 20 years ago.

    I still am scared to ask questions, but at least when I finally have no choice and resign myself to asking a question… its generally answered kindly, and if its not answered directly I’m at least put in the right direction. And that helps me build my own knowledge base, and helps me solve future problems on my own.

    Unlike when I did my first dip into linux a couple decades ago where you’d be called some creative combination of Windows/Microsoft and a sexual slur and told to go the fuck back to windows if you are too stupid to have been born without the complete comprehensive understanding of the terminal.

    I hope the community continues to improve, and welcome newbies and their problems like it currently does, so we can all grow and thrive together.

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      5 months ago

      Gaming communities can be incredibly bad. Everyone else is a jerk or moron who wasn’t born knowing that doing X increases your DPS by 2.3% on alternate Tuesdays. DUH