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Highly doubtful.

The few times I have bothered to ask technical questions I mostly get one of the following:

  1. Ideological ranting. "The problem is you aren’t running arch linux in that corporate environment with proprietary hardware you need to interface with"
  2. Complete refusal to read the question. "I totally didn’t read that you said Foo was not viable for reasons XYZ but you should use Foo"
  3. Complete nonsense

Reddit has a lot of that too but ALSO has the institutional knowledge of people who actually care enough to answer. Similar to stack overflow.

I try to help where I can but this is an enthusiast “site”. So you have all the people who suggest all the crap they heard on linus tech tips rather than “Okay, for my day job we use X but no sane person should use that at home. Look into Y”.


That said: I have said it before and I’ll say it again. The age of the online message board for tech support is long gone. Because the super useful results might be talking about a bug from five years ago rather than a bug from today. The answer really is ephemeral discord servers.

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