I seem to have a great deal of trouble finding anyone actively participating in any *n?x community who I find tolerable to interact with. Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, or that I just so happen to run into all the worst people. I don't know.
The fact remains, in any case, that when I call for help on a forum, I do not want to immediately receive long, largely irrelevant essays about how I should switch to an "Average Joe's E-Z Linux Distro" instead of trying to tinker with OpenBSD, that I might spare myself and everyone around me inevitable pain and frustration -- especially when I'm being perfectly calm about it all.
I imagine that the community as a whole must have been conditioned by this time to think "New user who thinks everything should be like Windows and so is having difficulties" when someone complains in passing of the lack of certain software packages' availabity on a certain architecture, or to think that anyone who has difficulties and asks for help does not know at all what they're doing and needs to use a Just Works Operating System. This is understandable given most people who come to *n?x forums to ask for help (or complain), but it's no excuse to accuse someone of not being a "serious user" with all its implications that the person does not know what he's doing and has no business trying to run a real operating system. (By the way, such a vital piece of hardware as a (PS/2!) keyboard being inexplicably inoperable is hardly a PICNIC situation, even if I am trying to run i386 OS on an amd64 machine.)
TL;DR I won't be returning to Daemon Forums.
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