Hows the cheap people's activation problem? lol
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!windows11@lemmy.world.
I found this community
I think it's not that active, right?
last post 3 days ago(as of feb,28,2026)
i find quite ironic that it's full of troublshooting, while linux comms are primarily full of entertainment. "Windows just works out of the box" btw
3/4 posts surrounding this one were asking for help with Linux.
Also the linux community on lemmy is big enough go have its own dedicated help/support communities.
I haven’t seen how Lemmy responds to troubleshooting requests about Linux. But I remember some Linux Reddit communities being full of vitriol of like “don’t use things you don’t understand” or like “distro? version? Hardware specs? Logs? Did you even search?” Which I believe led to people just starting out uncomfortable with asking for help there
That could be considered (relative) dead, given how many Windows users exist compared to Linux. In more serious note, I just think that Lemmy attracts more Linux users than Windows. That's all to it.