On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside < > deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote: > > > Hi ! > > Is there some IRC channel for Debian ? > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
It's worth mentioning that there are #debian channels on at least two different IRC networks: OFTC and Freenode. All of the "official" Debian channels are on the OFTC network, because for whatever reason(*), all of the Debian developers moved over there about 15 years ago. However, almost all of the Debian *users* are on the Freenode network. It is what it is. Freenode's #debian has more people, and you will probably get help there faster, so long as your question is actually on-topic and reasonable for an IRC channel. However, all of the specialized channels (like #debian-next, #debian-boot, or #debian-mentors) are on the OFTC network. If your question is highly specific, or if you are not using a stable Debian release, you may need to be on both networks. Example of common *off-topic* questions for #debian (ones which will get you ignored, yelled at, or kicked out of the channel, depending on how you act) include: questions about sid/unstable, questions about Ubuntu, questions about MX Linux, and questions about Kali Linux. (*)I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but some of you will remember the guy I'm thinking of, a Freenode admin who drove a lot of people away. Or was the network still called OPN at the time? I don't rememeber when the name changed....
