2012/1/4 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>:
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Again, as i've saying before, i don't know who the hell said that the natural replacement of ubuntu is Arch .. out community is people who like to read, and people who like to investigate .. not people who like some magic recipes. Even if somepeople wrote some of these recipes for Arch, our distro try to teach the user, if you are willing to learn, a couple of troll comments it's part of the scenary, whining.. so please stop crying.. and start researching.
That's said, i've been helping a lot of people in this community, i've discussed with lot of people too, and i got troll comments several times, despite my contributions of i've helped them in the past, i don't think in that deeply, i just let it go, my advice.. is when you don't like a reply.. just let it go.
I won't say sorry if you feel offended, stop the drama. In fact i congratulate that you actually hhave learned something in this community (in this mailing list at least).
Cheers.
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The Ubuntu forums had a fairly active Arch Linux related subforum[3] for a long time, a weird subforum for a distro forum to have wouldn't you say?. While that is now no longer available, it certainly caused a flow from Ubuntu to Arch Linux. Add to that the apparent wild growth of "Arch Linux is awesome" reports on the web[2] and you have your source of mass-interest as opposed to those looking specifically for what Arch has to offer. As a general remark: perhaps we are just suffering a marketing problem. Many less-experienced Linux users or even first-time Linux users finding their way to our forums or IRC channels seem to misunderstand the KISS ("..tries to keep it simple") principle as prominent on archlinux.org. People seem to think that this implies a click-and-go-DE-prefab distro, something we certainly are not. I certainly agree that attempting to portrait Arch as such is bad for both the user and the distro itself. And as for the IRC channels: these channels are advertised as discussion channels[1]. Support may be found there but it's certainly not the only thing going on in our channels, they are not comparable to the "Newbie" subforum and shouldn't be treated as such. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IRC_Channels [2] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-documentations.html [3] http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=321 -S