This morning, I was having a Windows XP problem, and the first thought that popped into my mind was, "Oh, I'll just post it to Perl Monks," followed quickly by, "That'd be really off-topic."
So, my question to you dear monks is:
When you have questions about topics other than Perl, where do you go for answers?
As I see it, the best features of PM are:
- Easy access to newcomers, while still providing extraordinarily good advice for non-newbies
- An extremely active user base (fast responses, and breadth of knowledge)
- Good site layout (more-interesting/generally-useful stuff gets front-paged. more obscure stuff gets Super Searched)
Are there any user-supported sites like PM for, say, Linux hardware issues? or databases? or even non-programming topics, like legal advice?
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