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Comments on Currently, where should we ask any OS related question?

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Currently, where should we ask any OS related question?

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I was looking at site proposals. I noticed lot of people including me were proposing for a site where we can ask any OS(Linux, Windows) related question. But, currently there's no site in Codidact where we can ask any OS related question. So, would moderator suggest to ask question somewhere in Codidact? or, they will say to keep patience until they finish work on it?

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Both of these proposals are popular.

At the same time, most of our communities struggle with user activity so we can't go launch "ghost towns" left and right. Some of the most recently launched communities are very inactive.

So here's an idea:

Why don't we merge the two above proposals into a single "power user" site?

With the Codidact category system, there's no obvious reason why Linux users need their own site. We can afford think outside the box - we don't have to launch a new site for every flavour of the same topic like SE has to do since they don't have categories.

This new power user site could for example have the following categories:

  • General Q&A
    (anything goes)
  • *nix
    (including Linux with all distros, all Unix versions)
  • Windows
  • Mobile
    (maybe split in Android and Apple?)

Optionally the site could also cover office suites, proposed here: https://meta.codidact.com/categories/10.

If the site then turns super active in a distant future, we can split it up in more specialized communities at that point.

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there's no obvious reason why Linux users need their own site. Actually, I wasn't requesting for only Linux. I was requesting for OS where OS includes Mobile, Linux, Mac, everything...! Maybe, something like power site ~ I am not sure

Lundin‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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@Istiakshovon‭ No I get what you are requesting, I'm just saying that the linked proposal doesn't really make sense since that proposal wants a community for Linux users only.

r~~‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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There's no point in joining two undersized communities together just to get a whole one if their members don't naturally overlap. Do you have relevant interest/expertise in all of these categories? Do other people?

Lundin‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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@r~~ Linux users is a subset of power user. There's a 100% overlap of the Linux proposal with the power user site. Why wouldn't they overlap? I have expertise in some of these categories but I don't see how that's relevant.

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Sure, you can define a ‘power user’ set that includes Windows power users and Linux enthusiasts, but what would those two subsets have to say to each other? Why would they overlap? People who do have expertise in both Windows and Linux can be members of both communities, but I think the majority of people ultimately settle on one or the other. And the sorts of questions potentially applicable to both—application questions, hardware questions—are likely to need different answers per OS.