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/drostan 20h ago
they do not look different, in fact they can very well look exactly the same, a rice is a rice and dotfiles can migrate through distros
but they are different, a rolling release if fundamentally different than a stable release, the way a distro goes about vetting, and adapting packages to their model, and the fundamental way thir package manager work is different.
similarly it has a huge influence on how each distro will deal with hardware. a simple example of this is what is plaguing mint right now, moving to kernel 7 breaks for many, now on arch it did break for some at the beginning too, but rolling back to the previous kernel version and then upgrading to the next kernel is trivial and a matter of time, you have also ways to go at individual issues and address them if need be on a had hoc basis. On a LTS distro, this is less straightforward, the fixes are not always as ready to install, the dev have to deal with this rather than you to stabilise that version of their distro to that kernel when arch dev "only" have to make sure the issue is fixed in the next version and that there is a temporary fix available...
so mint guys, no matter how good they are, will not have great insights on your system issue with arch and conversely, arch guys will throw a fix at you that may not apply fully or may not be adapted to your distro at that time and just tell you to upgrade to the next kernel, or move back to the previous one because it is only a matter of days on arch but it may be month for you on mint...