Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

[John Dow <johnmdow@me.com>]

On 11 Jul 2025, at 09:58, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> writes:

I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are
increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email
intimidating.

Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group
discussion) that's more palatable to the youngsters?

TikTok, with all the information they need in useful 4 second bites :-)

Seriously, though, we’re all been frustrated by the changes happening to the web in general - it used to be you’d search for information and get lots of links to actual written documentation, but now you get a blend of AI generated nonsense or a ‘YouTube personality’ (whose channel seems to be just running through the installer of different distros).

What a mailing list like this produces is a searchable archive of knowledge. I mean, look:

https://lists.debian.org/search.html

Imagine that! All the knowledge that gets shared here is searchable on a web page :)

Granted, I’m an old fuddy-duddy who’s been using Linux since day 1 (and UNIX before then), but email is the *perfect* medium for this type of interaction.

John

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