It's my opinion that it's mostly related to the quality of the site. I can't tell you how many problems you can Google for and your first ten options for answers are on the stack network.

In my experience:

Specific Debian derived error messages mostly point here.

Really intelligently configured Google queries tend to end up here or at the arch-wiki.

Just a personal note:

The second subset of people that know it's a fork/derivative, should, probably, also understand without asking that there are very significant differences between an upstream distro and a forked distro. They just seem to ask anyway... Specifically when the entire GUI system is lopped off and replaced (like the Mint -> Ubuntu with Unity -> Debian with Gnome 3/KDE/some lightweight window manager).

It's my opinion that it's mostly related to the quality of the site. I can't tell you how many problems you can Google for and your first ten options for answers are on the stack network.

In my experience:

Specific Debian derived error messages mostly point here.

Really intelligently configured Google queries, about configuration issues, tend to end up here or at the arch-wiki.

Just a personal note:

The second subset of people that know it's a fork/derivative, should, probably, also understand without asking that there are very significant differences between an upstream distro and a forked distro. They just seem to ask anyway... Specifically when the entire GUI system is lopped off and replaced (like the Mint -> Ubuntu with Unity -> Debian with Gnome 3/KDE/some lightweight window manager).

It's my opinion that it's mostly related to the quality of the site. I can't tell you how many problems you can Google for and your first ten options for answers are on the stack network.

In my experience:

Specific Debian derived error messages mostly point here, in my experience.

Really intelligent configuration Google queries tend to end up here or the arch-wiki.

Just a personal note:

The second subset of people that know it's a fork/derivative, should, probably, also understand without asking that there are very significant differences between an upstream distro and a forked distro. They just seem to ask anyway... Specifically when the entire GUI system is lopped off and replaced (like the Mint -> Ubuntu with Unity -> Debian with Gnome 3/KDE/some lightweight window manager).

It's my opinion that it's mostly related to the quality of the site. I can't tell you how many problems you can Google for and your first ten options for answers are on the stack network.

In my experience:

Specific Debian derived error messages mostly point here.

Really intelligently configured Google queries tend to end up here or at the arch-wiki.

Just a personal note:

The second subset of people that know it's a fork/derivative, should, probably, also understand without asking that there are very significant differences between an upstream distro and a forked distro. They just seem to ask anyway... Specifically when the entire GUI system is lopped off and replaced (like the Mint -> Ubuntu with Unity -> Debian with Gnome 3/KDE/some lightweight window manager).