• я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    i honestly just wanna express my gratitude to all the people who made linux what it is today over the last decades, the experience is incomparable to the one i had when first installing debian in 2007. i wish i were more skilled in order to meaningfully give back to this community.

    and to all the newbies: thanks for joining our ranks! please dont be scared by the rather elitist attitude that some users display. we secretly all love you!

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      If you want to give back but don't have coding skills, you can always be nice and help onboard new users! There's always been this attitude of 'linux is better' immediately followed by 'rtfm n00b' when users try to get started. A more sympathetic crowd would go a long way.

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      I think I first installed linux some time around 2009. I'm only just now starting to contribute to libraries, unrelated to linux. Its such a cool feeling growing along side the open source movement.