On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 12:12:07PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:36:26AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 02:45:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 11/2/25 1:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > This would be too broad, IMO. Don't forget that Debian is a volunteer > > organisation, its infrastructure running off donations. Would you find > > it OK to (ab) use that infrastructure to provide support for users of > > highly commercial endeavours, just because their (well resourced!) > > overlords skimp on that? (Examples: Amazon, Ubuntu, Oracle, diverse > > Androids)? > > > > So I think it's OK to be also able to say "stop: this is an Oracle > > Linux question. Please go to their channels). > > > > It's only the "strict" part I'm not friends with. > > > > OK - I'll revise it to "Strictly, discussion of non-Debian-distributions > is off-topic on Debian-user"
Thanks :-) > It's better if we don't get thirty five questions a month about > [Debian-derivative] XYZ and can say "Go and look on their forums > (which can be found here) and if they don't have any support, please > feel free to come back to Debian and show us the problem on Debian" In a way, yes. But then, connecting is always better than fragmenting. I do support some non-techies who have Ubuntu on their main drivers, and am happy that they use free software. Many things I know about Ubuntu I learn here, en passant so to speak. > We shouldn't have to be the last resort for other distribution users > who don't necessarily read past "Debian" in "Debian-derived" :) ...but friendly by default (I know *you* are :) Cheers -- t
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