[SOLVED] General question re; LQ Forum.

Anyone who signs into LQ will see this statement.

"Welcome to the most active Linux Forum on the web."

Is this an accurate statement or wishful thinking? Why ask?
Because the Ubuntu forum seems to be a lot busier with more members, not that I go there much anymore as the closest I get to Ubuntu is Mint.
Just wondering.

Well, I visit it a lot to get my answers, and to participate in answering Zero answer threads...
As far as general linux (non distro bound) goes, pretty much all the questions can get an answer here...
My take
Melissa

Is this an accurate statement or wishful thinking?

Personally it is both *accurate* and still a *fact* today. The evils of Windows 10 (which summed up all the evils since Windows 7) has brought in a great influx of immigrants into linux community from redmond country, and likelihood is that Ubuntu (being the easier Gnu/Linux distro for microsoft-educated users) is expected to usher greater multitude of help-membership. Ubuntu forum is backed up by experts, some from canonical. They too have respectable stories on the board.

But LQ is different. We in this community stand for *all* distros. And the experts behind us came from myriad backgrounds. People who came from decade in real Unix machines are here, from whom LQ members enjoy invaluable helps about network, modules, shell or bash. In slackware (distro) alone we enjoy posts directly by PV, Eric Hameleers, and other great developers, (pardon if I cannot list all the great figures in LQ). They are the assurance that newbies are not left alone that one blind may lead another blind, rather, when helping gets unhelpful, often an expert will come to the rescue (if he has time).

Only LinuxQuestions can be like LQ because there is only one Jeremy.

I notice that at distrowatch, Mint gets more visits than Ubuntu. It wouldn't surprise me if they overtake Ubuntu in the near future as the most used Linux distro.

In my introduction post here I think I typed something like "When I googled a Linux problem I tended to find a solution here".
I'm fairly certain those Google rankings are earned and not bought (hence my signing up here) so from my research this is definitely one of the main sources of Linux help on the www.

We are, to my knowledge, the most active *general* Linux forum.

--jeremy

I just did some unofficial research. I visited the Ubuntu forum and noted they have 32,348 users online, with 2,013,009 members, most ever users online at one time was 104,751.

Here at LQ there are 2,464 users online, 553,876 members, no statistics for most users online at one time.

These results don't surprise me, so this claim "Welcome to the most active Linux Forum on the web." may possibly be true, within the forums that have the word 'linux' in their name, but it's hardly true in comparison to Ubuntu. Case closed,

EDIT; Just noticed the post by jeremy, good explanation, thank you.