On 13/10/2020 14.59, Adrien Glauser wrote:

Hey Lubos,

Thanks, hope we won't be losing steam during the journey, but at least we're off onto something!

Support for openSUSE is indeed quite fragmented: - r/openSUSE

Er... what is the meaning of the 'r/' above? I'm sorry, but I'm lost as to what may it mean. I suppose it is obvious to others, but to me it is new.

- https://t.me/openSUSE_group bridged with the Freenode IRC and the Discord ("chat" channel)

No idea what t.me is, either. :-?

- "support" channel on Discord bridged with the Freenode IRC - mailing lists - https://forums.opensuse.org - all the non-English forums

Now even though I don't see fragmentation as a problem in itself, there are two kinds of fragmentation that do hurt:

1) The Problem of Good Answers Take Luck When a question needs more than just descriptive material, and ought to be answered by something like a recommendation or a short deliberation where pros and cons have to be weighed against each other (i.e. should I install NVIDIA proprietary drivers or openSUSE NVIDIA package or just use Nouveau?); in this case, depending where you ask you will get different answers, not all equally good

2) The Problem of Good Answers Evaporate When a question has been met by a very good answer, which unfortunately is not conveniently discoverable by web search engines.

Heh.

And now to your remark: I don't think that r/openSUSE is an issue because in my experience -- perhaps other experiences will tell differently -- it avoids both Problems above, and I don't see another Problem it'd run into.

For me the issue is more with the instant messaging services. I use them all the time and they are super good for coordination, but run into both issues full throttle. There is no magic cure I can think of right now.

My only hope is that if we consolidate and update all documentation material *while also offering recommendations over and above mere descriptive material* we will be able to have a "source of truth" useful enough to knock down the two Problems, at least as far as new users are concerned.

Just my opinion though.

Cheers,

Adrien

Ok :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)