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Originally Posted by windependence
It's refreshing to come here and still see people that know what they are doing and that want to do things the correct way.
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The biggest difference I see between Linux-centric forums (which I've been active on since '04) and BSD-centric forums (which I've been active on since '05) is the "high-skill saturation level".
Let me throw out some
very rough (read: speculative) estimates to demonstrate the idea, without mentioning any specific forum names:
Average Linux forum- 20% expert-level users
- 40% intermediate-level
- 40% novices
Average BSD forum- 50% expert-level users
- 30% intermediate-level
- 20% novices
Why is this so? * Could it be that many BSD users start with Linux to learn a lot of concepts and then expand their horizons to the world of BSD? Could it be that the learning curve required to get a BSD installation up and working as a desktop system is more steep (thus weeding out lower-skilled, potential users)? Could it be that as a community aggressively markets and grows it will inevitably attract novices faster than it can breed experts?
* Note: I'm not stating that this definitively is so, but rather asking some questions based on my own perception of the situation.