If I hadn't spent 2 decades becoming self sufficient for exactly this reason, I would be SOL. The machining world is absolutely full of bigoted assholes.
Absolutely this. I've started a few, and after being the only one to ever post on one of them, I have practically given up. It also burned me out of a hobby.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Learning to edit config.sys to get some share ware game working without help was a rite of passage for many.
The hilarity here is that iirc this first showed up on !linuxsucks@lemmy.world , and gained a 3rd of the popularity. At least we see and understand what it is like if you go the Gentoo route.
Sorry about that. It can be hard to tell sometimes.