PDP-8
Brian – you are right. I love antiX and mx. My main attraction was the awesome persistence setup, which I use all the time. However, I wonder how many just use either one the old-fashioned way, accept the defaults, and head straight towards the install icon to splatter bits on rotating oxide. 🙂
It might be that these days, many expect a distro forum to be a “product support” forum, rather than a random collection of devs and users doing something cool on their own time / dime, especially the small projects.
Some reasons for not getting an answer is because doing so leads to a total can of worms. I’m not pointing fingers, but just saying I see plenty of “I’m a newbie with linux, and want to compile this source program not found in the repos. How do I do it?”
And the reason for not answering sometimes is that to do so, means giving a college-level course over and over. 🙂 Starting from how to unarchive a file, run gcc, learn what dependencies are needed and pull them in, tell them all the compiler flags that are necessary, how to do the normal unix file management things, recompress it all and submit back to the project. In the meantime, the user hasn’t learned a thing from it – just typed in what the helper said to do. Next!
It can burn you out, not because you don’t want to help, but it is because the questioner is just one of the thousands that will follow.
Anyway, getting waaay OT. Back to my rocking chair. 🙂