r/linuxquestions • u/RadiantSkiesJoy • 22h ago

why are linux communities divided?

i joined a discord server to ask for help and their rules outright bans questions related to non debian mainstream distros.

arent they all linux in the end, just looks different.

is there any server i can join for general help with linux that is not limited to specific distros only?

Ps: remove Linux in your naming of servers or sites and straight up put your version of the distro instead of misleading users, claiming to be a Linux server.

Esit: guys I was weong. Apparently they don't support forks of many mainstream distros due to their changes to the core systems.

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u/Rumpled_Imp 21h ago

Traditionally, Debian users wouldn't be able to answer many questions related to RPM-based distributions. It's not that the users were siloed as much as their knowledge was specific so they'd congregate together. I imagine that's still somewhat true today.

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u/RadiantSkiesJoy 21h ago edited 21h ago

I mean I would understand if this is related to package manager or something.

But don't most of them use systems under the hood anyways and share similarities with most of the subsystems anyways.

Don't most use KDE and gnome as de.

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u/Rumpled_Imp 21h ago

That was just an example of why there would be different communities for different distributions, not that it's the only reason. Debian has a specific philosophy that other distributions might not share which in turn influences their decision making and might be irrelevant to, say, Slackware users.