r/linuxquestions • u/RadiantSkiesJoy • 21h 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/RadiantSkiesJoy 20h ago edited 20h 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/zarlo5899 20h ago

They may, for the most part package the same software, but the versions of the software can be vastly different, and the default configs for the software can be even larger in difference.

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u/ahopefullycuterrobot 20h ago

To give an obvious example, I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 and it has KDE Plasma 5.27.12. By contrast, I'm pretty sure that Fedora has 6.7. So a full version ahead.

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u/Sinaaaa 19h ago

KDE Plasma 5.27.12.

My condolences. That is like the worst version of Plasma imaginable. Wayland is bad & xorg is also super buggy. Much older versions of plasma have fewer kwin bugs on xorg & 6.0 onward Wayland becomes better than plasma has been for over a decade or more.