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In think we need a linuxcherrypop community, so that I can filter past the "ive done it!! I left windows!" posts, or those questions like "what do you miss about other distros".
I just want Linux news. Tell me about developments, and let me discuss them with people
I don't think there's enough traffic to warrant it.
This also annoys me about mods removing posts that are even slightly not related. There weren’t many places to ask so why push questions to uber small communities
I'm just noticing all of those reddit-to-lemmy lookup tools people made a couple years ago have been abandoned. Either out of date, or no longer online 😕.
Pretty sure there is a Linux community for just about any question you can think of already on Lemmy.
Yes. When I was posting support related post, I felt bad posting it on here as I saw it as more for news or discussion related to Linux or at least people subscribe to it for that reason mainly.
On my mobile Lemmy client (Eternity), I already keep a multicommunity group for finding tech support posts in case I have something to offer in response. As it stands with !linux@lemmy.ml, there aren't too many posts that are pure conjecture or information and thus doesn't really clog my feed. If this community grows to have more of these kinds of posts showing up, it may be worth having a split. As it stands currently though, I feel it would mostly serve to significantly lessen what gets posted to this community.