On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have willingness and determination to learn, that is the important thing. The resources are out there, people just need to look, and I'm willing to add to those resources.
You aren't adding anything beneficial by telling others that their comments are equal to troll statements, when this is clearly not true.
Attracting users to Arch is not a stated goal, this has been repeated many times in various fora. Arch is only for a certain type of users, those who are willing and able to learn. I'm not knocking your effort, but a quick glance at those resources you've provided indicate that you're trying to make it very easy to get to using Arch, and I don't think that's beneficial for Arch or its community. There are other distributions for 'easy-to-use', Arch should not be that. Not because of any type of elitism, but because Arch's niche is about control and simplicity, and making it 'newbie-friendly' (whatever that means) would compromise that. Splitting the thread (sorry I use gmail, so it won't split for you guys on mutt or whatever) to reduce the 'corruption' of original thread, not that I think it'll make a difference though.