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Why are there so few requests for Pop!_OS help here?

The pop_os subreddit has many Pop!_OS-specific help requests per day. I'm kind of surprised there aren't more here on the Fediverse/lemmy side of the community.

I browse looking for ways to help, and after having shifted my attention from Reddit to the Fediverse I feel like I could be helping out more. Why aren't there more requests here?

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  • It's probably that lemmy is a much smaller community coupled with lemmy users likely being more tech literate, in general, than redditors. Not that people on lemmy don't have questions but that they're more self reliant. At least in my own case I often will spend hours digging for answers before I'd post asking.

  • Smaller user base, and pop is pretty much dummy resistant from the get-go. It isn't my primary choice, but I've installed it for other people and it's very easy to work with.

    Plus, there's already plenty of info out there for a quick search

    • Not only is it extremely easy to install and use, but it handles one of the more difficult aspects of Linux for new people extremely well (gaming and proprietary graphics drivers). And it doesn't do anything too exotic or unusual compared to Os's people might be familiar with.

  • Short answer, it's traffic.

    If you want an imperfect and unofficial guestimate, here goes:

    Lemmy.world has 2.48K users / day

    According to Statistica "in April 2023 approximately 1.7 billion visits", so dividing 1,700,000,000/30 = 56,666,666.6667 as an average per day.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/443332/reddit-monthly-visitors/

    Yes, there's probably days with higher traffic (likely weekends), but this gives us an idea of visits.

    56,666,666/2,840 = 19,953.0514085

    So every single post here would be nearly 20K posts to Reddit, because Reddit has about 20K times more visits in a day using that one month as a baseline. It's probably not perfectly accurate, but it's a number to work with.

    I visited https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/ and saw 15 posts from today. I'll use that as an unofficial average.

    19953.0514085 / 15 = 1,330.20342723 (number of days)

    1330.20342723 / 365 = 3.64439295132 (number of years)

    If you get 1 post every 3 and half years, you're keeping up with Reddit.

    Off-topic:

    I just saw the mascot redesign and wow. Just wow. Not in a good wow way.

  • I tried to install Pop! on a Pinebook Pro and failed miserably, but I'm pretty confident it had nothing to do with the Pop!OS. Just couldn't get the PBP to access the SD card or USB in live mode. All fine in the Bios, really don't know what the issue was. So one day I'll try it on another machine. Probably doesn't help that PBP is ARM.

  • In any case, the Mattermost community is the best place to get support.

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