Linux enthusiasts: share my vision of the Linux community

My job is to test, try and evaluate all types of new open source software, and occasionally release my favorite open source software, this work sometimes makes me extraordinarily excited, sometimes It made me feel a little depressed. I started to contact Linux in the late 1990s. When I compared my current experience with my past experience, I found that I have made good progress.

We have all experienced the process of application installation failure. At this time, we often go to the Linux forum and IRC channel, hoping to find a solution there.

Using forums and IRC channels to solve problems is like walking in a dormitory corridor. Every time you pass a door, you put your head in, say hello to everyone, and then quickly ask your question to see if anyone is willing to provide a point. The idea, the door you knocked on is different, and the response is different.

From the time I contacted Linux, the situation has changed a lot. First of all, now you can knock more and more doors. Secondly, as open source becomes mainstream, people who ask questions It is also getting more and more, but there is no change in the response of enthusiastic netizens.

There will always be enthusiastic people who will help you solve the problem. One day I knocked on a door. The first response is “You have to tell me how your problem occurred?”, There are also special novice rooms, filled with laughter and laughter, just like children in the children's pool, because their problems are usually very simple, many people can answer. Of course, there are also so-called elite rooms (Linux users generally regard Gentoo users as senior elites), and for any problem, they usually only have a unified response <;RFTM (please read the damn user manual)”.

Occasionally you will find that the whole room is full of enthusiastic technical elites. If you are in this situation, you are very fortunate. If you ask questions in this room, you will soon get a satisfactory answer.

All of this gave me the idea that those who love open source projects might have been open source missionaries who want to share their experiences with anyone and let the public understand and accept the spirit of open source. Nothing is more frustrating than if you want to try to open source but you can't get help. Now it's a pleasure to remember the days of staying in the novice room. The whole room is full of people asking questions, but when they get a satisfactory answer, they leave excitedly. I was very proud that they might soon enter the room again, but this time their problems may be a bit more complicated (this is a very good phenomenon, indicating that they have studied hard).

You never know who the next head is going to enter the room, it may be a novice newcomer, or an enthusiastic expert, and one of them may become the next Torvalds. In short, when solving problems here, you should encourage them a lot, let our team expand, and more importantly, be patient, maybe your efforts will trigger the next wave of Linux fever.