If you've ever spent any time online, you might have heard how TOXIC the Arch Linux community is. You might even have been cyberbullied for using Ubuntu by a...
You probably have, the vast majority don’t sprout “I use Arch btw” unless it’s relevant, e.g. talking about arch specific things.
The community can be a bit toxic for new users, essentially because it’s expected that you googled your problem and looked at the wiki before asking. In the video for example he shows a forum with the following back and forth:
OP: I have X problem
Arch User: can you provide the debug logs?
OP: How do I get debug logs
AU: link to the wiki page that gives information on how to get the debug logs for that program
That doesn’t seem toxic to me, in fact it seems a perfectly acceptable and polite response, but for some reason the person in the video thought it was. There are a lot of examples of edgelords claiming Arch is for the intellectual superior, and the OP should just use Ubuntu because he’s dumb, those would have been better examples of the toxicity in the Arch community. Like you mentioned it, they’re likely annoying teens and not really the norm, but they exist and are somewhat common, I was active on the arch subreddit before switching to Lemmy and I’ve read a good share of such responses.
I’d totally agree. I work as a trainer and documentation writer for my job, and if a trainee came to me with a question, my first response would never be just “RTFM”; if the solution is in said manual I would point them to the specific area of the manual the solution is in. A link to that spot in the manual is certainly sufficient and polite enough to do that. Otherwise they’re more than likely to come back and bug me because they can’t find the solution in the manual. I actually don’t really notice a lot of elitism among Arch users at all, the more annoying thing I find from the community is them spamming support for using Arch for every single use case in any sort of “help me pick a distro” thread. We get it, Arch is awesome and you love it, not really disagreeing, but you can settle down now.
You probably have, the vast majority don’t sprout “I use Arch btw” unless it’s relevant, e.g. talking about arch specific things.
The community can be a bit toxic for new users, essentially because it’s expected that you googled your problem and looked at the wiki before asking. In the video for example he shows a forum with the following back and forth:
That doesn’t seem toxic to me, in fact it seems a perfectly acceptable and polite response, but for some reason the person in the video thought it was. There are a lot of examples of edgelords claiming Arch is for the intellectual superior, and the OP should just use Ubuntu because he’s dumb, those would have been better examples of the toxicity in the Arch community. Like you mentioned it, they’re likely annoying teens and not really the norm, but they exist and are somewhat common, I was active on the arch subreddit before switching to Lemmy and I’ve read a good share of such responses.
I’d totally agree. I work as a trainer and documentation writer for my job, and if a trainee came to me with a question, my first response would never be just “RTFM”; if the solution is in said manual I would point them to the specific area of the manual the solution is in. A link to that spot in the manual is certainly sufficient and polite enough to do that. Otherwise they’re more than likely to come back and bug me because they can’t find the solution in the manual. I actually don’t really notice a lot of elitism among Arch users at all, the more annoying thing I find from the community is them spamming support for using Arch for every single use case in any sort of “help me pick a distro” thread. We get it, Arch is awesome and you love it, not really disagreeing, but you can settle down now.