I also want to see how many downvotes i am going to get

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    Any thoughts on which distro has the friendliest community?

    I looked this up a few months ago when I was changing from Fedora to OpenSUSE.
    OpenSUSE itself was mentioned as having a friendly community, which I thought was great since I was switching to it anyway.

    But my first experience asking for help on their official forums was ehhh—I asked about some guidance I’d read in the official docs (basically a blurb that said FYI, you can do this another way), and was told, condescendingly, that “no one does it that way.”

    That’s fine—the sarcastic or condescending tone I mean—maybe it’s a European or a German thing that’s rubbed off on its users.

    The distro itself it great though. I’ve been able to solve most other issues myself.

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      EndeavourOS, Mint, Fedora. I was a part of EnOS forums for a year, these people are saints. Just say hello or make a help request and five different people will greet you.

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        EndeavorOS … these people are saints.

        I think that’s the successor to Antergos, if so that makes sense!

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      I haven’t personally noticed a bad attitude in any other community. The general Linux community is friendly enough, if your questions aren’t distro-specific.

      I’m actually surprised that you had a bad experience with the OpenSUSE community - it’s one of my favorite distros, the leadership seems on the pulse, and it’s user-friendly to begin with. If nothing else I’d be surprised if they were toxic simply because they are probably overwhelmed with Linux newbies and they can’t curse them all out. Hopefully that was just a fluke - you probably want to avoid getting cornered by the people with 40k forum posts in any niche forum.