Is MX forums the best OS Linux forums? [Solved]

[Charlie Brown]

Is MX forums the best OS Linux forums?

No.

[talera]

I don't think there is something like "the best".

It may be the best for someone. And not the best for some other one.

When you are feeling alright here then everything is well enough. :)

[atomick]

Eadwine Rose 2x Hammer to Nailed it. System Administrators are possibly one of the highest Most Harshly Stressed individuals 7x24. Their Having to learn to know all thing is hard road to live by. They do it with Zest. And love to succeed every challenge.
Any to repeat Any worthy information is of value. my day when claimed us to be "Stuff Guys" we do stuff.
Now then the past what have you. Does not matter its source. Forum and or "Asking a Search engine" the Right Question. To the Right truthful issue one is appearing to have. (copy paste into your notes can provide "Aid" ).

Many troubles as my other Snapshot dialog indicated: Many issues are a cause of "Between Chair and Keyboard" !

Value the information given. To answering direct resolution to a given issue. You need ask the right given question to get a speedy result. Some do very much like to know what hardware QSI results as too! SysAdmins have real road experience.

So their knowledge of given hardware is like wizardry of its own guild. Not to smash up any distro. Experience shares its real value. Many times real Syntax to cmdline is also very important to fishing expeditions to asking this that or any other thing
w/o asking the necessary question given the dialog of issue or a Pulse to condition toss of word.

Test things out ' command --help', grep --help. apropos cmdline, a high level shopping view of a command an associates, apropos ls. man cmdline, man ls.
can share volumes to a command and its operational options and syntax some even give examples. That is a good man pg. 'man ls' as example, every *Nix cmd has it built in so does Win /? same. Win is simply Unix done wrong exploited and burnt into its own distro simply reverse code engineering and done different. Under the hood much the same. ls = dir example. Linux is the Cheetah of OS. Lean Fast mean to the point good feast of an OS. no bloat although some MS influence has snuck in the back door. He whom knows "knows" Spaces in dir and filename. a nono to the inode and file system consider ext4 superior to ntfs. and has ntfs ever really changed. in terminal type blkid -k and look at all the filesystems Linux has to offer. And thanks to Sun M/systems zfs has ported into *Nix as open-zfs very nice way to manage any raid if done right.

Linux although is X11 gui driven so many desktops available.
many magical process by a Systems Admin is done performing "Terminal Shell Command Line " its gui basics all the same " - see it read its value try it your self - Make some notes these may become valued later in time. Thru repetition the Source becomes ones Own. Practice to the nth level. A Sys Admin has done so to reach such clarity of value to the all mighty command line. in terminal. Like ol ' DOS day. or early unix days close to machine code. anyone can learn from anywhere its up to the reader. The Keyboard Mouse Practitioner.
MX shares like all! a wide community of minds. As does any good distro. many seem to ky-bosh to comment bc lesser of knowledge does not know. Patience and readings do help. Take some time to read when idle in time.n.space.
Play becomes fun learning. Admins do this. Easy to tinker. Call it productive practice. Atomick (Tim). Last point ! "It never hurts to Ask? - It only hurts not too! " some one if not many may strike to answer. Test their answers. "Cheers. "

[entropyfoe]

Is the MX forum the best Linux forum?

Yes, absolutely in my experience.
I have been on ubuntu, xubuntu, puppy, suse, maybe some others. Mostly long ago, got no time now for anything but MX!

Other forums can be intimidating and mean to the new comer with some simple problem.

RTFM you moron !

Not here.
Here is the greatest bunch of experts on any linux hardware and software problem as related to MX, and therefore usually Debian.
There is no problem that can't be solved with the collective wisdom here.

You have direct access to the wonderful dev team.
If you need an obscure package, almost always someone can make a version for the repo. It is amazing how fast sometimes!

The average tone is helpful, and calm usually.
Trolls are detected and escorted out quickly.

So, therefore I must thank the moderators and those who run this fine forum.

[arjaybe]

I'm registered in some other Linux forums ...

MX-Linux is the best Linux. But there are more tolerant forums where helpful nerds are welcome and admin/moderators are not kings.

When you say "more tolerant forums," do you mean ones in addition to MX, or ones with more tolerance?

[richb]

As a former member of the MepisLovers Forum, and administrator of this forum since the beginning. I will say anointing a forum as the best is a fruitless task. I am sure there are good ones and bad ones. Obviously I am biased but would be the last to judge this Forum as the best. But I do believe it is a good one.

We attempt to be fair to all users. Decisions on warnings, banning and locking posts are discussed by the moderators and admins. And many times there is disagreement but we have always been able to, in my view, come to a fair conclusion.

The rules are not static. They are reviewed frequently and changes are made. Extensions to the phpBB software are added to make use of the Forum more user friendly.

The Development team is unusually active in answering issues, following the posts as far as possible to a satisfactory conclusion.

[i_ri]

asinoro
Impact the statistics. mark this topic solved by Leo.
Keep it family-friendly.

[Eadwine Rose]

Mind.. no statistics as to percentage are being kept, made, or otherwise used.

The solved marking is simply there to save everyone time reading through an entire thread or posting needlessly.

The advantage of this over editing the subject line is that clicking the word takes someone to the solution, which saves THEM the time reading through the entire thread.

[dings]

This forum is enjoyable because of helpful people and information

[CharlesV]

I'm registered in some other Linux forums ...

MX-Linux is the best Linux. But there are more tolerant forums where helpful nerds are welcome and admin/moderators are not kings.

There are many forums and many of them have helpful people. And some have people that are not helpful or rely on their own attitude to decide what they deem to "a response" .

This forum has admin and moderators that wish to provide help, and have people / techs provide HELP and not just attitude. And it obviously works, as anyone looking can see.

There is a really simple thing here that some people just dont get - If your not satisfied with, or do not like the level, performance, people, help or moderators in this forum ... then you can move on and find some other place.