People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

Couldn't possibly agree more. One of the biggest barriers to sharing my enthusiasm for Linux with my friends is filtering out all of the cringey anime weeb shit that somehow gets posted along with it. Why does open source software need to be associated with creepy drawings of little girls? Absolutely the worst vibes.

It's understandable when it comes from niche programs with solo devs. You are likely to be a degen when you spend your whole day in front of your computer. So you likely also have degen habits like the one here. But if it's from group of devs then yeah that's straight up irritating.

Also you in the sense not you. English not my main language.
- Hur durr... You have different interests... Therefore degenerate...
  
  Do you even realize how incredibly stupid the whole concept of tribalism is?
  
  My understanding of degeneracy is well defined.
  
  degenerate behavior, especially behavior considered sexually deviant
  
  Fortunately I do not have any interest on little kids so yes it is deviating from my/societal interest therefore a degen.
  
  That's where you're wrong kiddo. The downvotes are because you are jumping to conclusion about lolis and other sexualization.
  
  The fascination with child personas for most anime fans are just that. It's cute. The same ways dogs are cute, and cats are cute. I really doubt they have a fetish on children, although there are some that do. I really don't think it's right to mash them all together.
  
  Idk where you are from. But someone making it their hobby to watch cute little girls is considered quite creepy in my place.
  
  Ik that's also a reason and i stand by my views which also happens to be the views of the general society.
  
  Hobby is anime which includes much more than "watching little girls". With phrasing like yours it seems that you push all people like that like some creeps that just look at children.
  
  The idea that I'm trying to convey, is that personification of a technology with art into something cute, cool or whatever doesn't automatically mean sexual deviation or anything along the lines.
  
  Also stereotyping is not exactly something you should defend with "general society"
  
  I agree where you are coming from but there is proper evidence of loli porn and it not being just a cool anime. I don't have problem with anime.
  
  Also cosplaying a little girl is pretty weird no matter where you are from.
  
  Not sure why you're getting downvoted for correctly using the term and calling out the degenerates who self-insert as little girls everywhere.
  
  Maybe because i worded it a bit like im attacking linux hobbyists. I am one myself. And maybe I also fit in a different definition of the term degen. But yeah I don't agree with the one dude that thinks cosplaying little girls is a hobby lol.
  
  In a sense we all spend so much time virtually, sometimes it feels dystopian to me. Not saying it's wrong but it's fascinating for sure.

She uses arch btw

Yes I do

Idk, I feel like gatekeeping is a bigger problem than anime thumbnails.

I would have to disagree. What you are saying is toxic communities that reply RTFM to every question like arch or gentoo. Those aren't beginner friendly distros. Mint, ubuntu, pop, fedora all have wonderful communities and quick support.

Windows is more documented. Not better but more. So when someone migrates to linux they panic because they can't find resources like they used to do. How to fix this? Just give it time. More windows enshittification, more migration, more questions in support, more answers. No more gstekeeping like feeling.
- What you are saying is toxic communities that reply RTFM to every question like arch or gentoo.
  
  Im active on arch communities and i've never seen this kind of message, most of the time they give you a hyperlink to a specific chapter of the manual so you know exactly how to fix your issue, not just copy pasta.
  
  Windows is more documented. Not better but more.
  
  Not at all but ok.
  
  For your first paragraph, try arch discord and for the second ever used a search engine or just youtube? Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.
  
  Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.
  
  Kinda hard to provide a full documentation of a os as a particular when you have absolutely no control on it. Also there's plenty of "windows tutorial" that are either wrong or out of date, while in Arch or most closely Linux there's things that still remain the same years later.
  
  Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.
  
  If I had a nickle for every BSOD error code I researched only to find "have you tried running sfc /scannow? What about a refresh? You tried both and nothing worked? Just reinstall!"
  
  More documented my ass. Linux at least tells me what's wrong. "No space left on device" or "missing dependency" is way better than "Error code 0x0000007e"
  
  Jup, Im having an NTP issue on my win10 machine If you search for it you find the same 5 "solutions" from dozens of content farms.
  
  have you tried running sfc /scannow?
  
  To be fair this is kinda "did you try to reboot?" kind of answer. Stupid, but effective.
  
  Just reinstall!
  
  IT'S TIME TO REINSTALL ШINDOWS! This is why I love Linux community, especially Gentoo. Reinstalling system is rarely considered to be valid answer.
  
  I repair computers on the side and this exact issue happens so frequently I know some of the error codes that I dont bother trying to fix now. The sheer amount of Windows reinstalls I have to do... honestly its often faster than trying to fix the problem.
- The gatekeeping I was referring to is giving people shit for being weebs, furries, etc. etc. Feels skeezy and moralistic. One of my favourite things about the Linux community is how openly eccentric so many people are. Even if it isn't my aesthetic it's way less contrived than the bland wastelands that corporate culture generates.
  
  It wasn't really relevant to your question, but you do you, weeb OP.
  
  Gatekeeping (communication) Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication.
  
  That is certainly one use of the word gatekeeping. Another common use of the word is:
  
  "when someone takes it upon themselves to decide who does or does not have access or rights to a community or identity".
  
  You got it mixed up. I am not restricting one to let others in. Being a creep is not normal and it isn't gatekeeping to say cosplaying little girls is not normal.
  
  And all the down votes prove how much this is normalized in linux communuty which gets us all bad rep.
  
  Linking to upstream source instead of copying answer that will be outdated is neither gatekeeping nor "RTFM toxicity"
  
  I never said rtfm is toxic but it is well known how toxic arch community used to be. Im very much referring to that.

from the thumbnail and title text i thought i was browsing 4chan

The average person finds these creepy, and so you'll keep the average person away.

I personally don't get it either, it does look like a 6 year old girl to me and it seems completely off-topic, but I don't question it so long as it's not sexual in nature.

maybe it's a good thing these blind haters of anime stuff aren't nearby

Anime fans, despite counterintuitiveness, have greater average IQ that not anime fans.

Lol source pls
- Personal experience. Go search for linux users among football fans. Both footballs. You won't find as often.
  
  That's a terrible comparison
  
  Ok. Marvel fans then.
  
  Ok that makes more sense, I see your point