True, but I read OC's anecdote as an interpolation of what might occur since distros and kernel communities have similarities. The very first time I got a RTFM

True, but I read OC's anecdote as an interpolation of what might occur since distros and kernel communities have similarities. The very first time I got a RTFM response was in one distro IRC channel (which probably was not the same that OC's)