I'm a vegan in the Linux world.

As a Slack user, I can confirm this.

Does Arch trace its history to Slack?

So I take it you are an Arch user?

The Arch Linux community that you see in Freenode/#archlinux... there's LOT of elitism coming from a few very vocal individuals. "Earnestly" is very nice, very helpful.

I don't know if community is genuinely important to Arch Linux, or not. It may, in fact, be their aim to be an elitist and cloistered few... who knows.

If community is important to them... put the technical arguments aside long enough to take a page from Canonical's playbook. Ubuntu _gets_ community.

Like it, or not... there's more to life than being the smartest/best coder in the room. If you're an asshole, your talents quickly fade.

mad coder skills & genuinely nice > mad coder skills

Flame on, folks. I've already mentally prepared myself for the inevitable insults and vitriol.

You never get to make the same joke for users of other distros, though, because it's pretty much always the arch users who feel the need to mention "cool, but I run arch so I'm all set" or whatever. It's the most obnoxious way to not contribute to a discussion at all.