@risottobias@tech.lgbt Right, I get what you mean. I can only speak for the parts of the community that I interact with (eg. the Matrix rooms), but:

While I can't say that elitism is *entirely* nonexistent in the community, it's certainly something that's seen as undesirable and that's actively pushed back against. And generally people are aware of how elitism is a risk.

The documentation quality is still a problem, but also one that is recognized by many, and that people work on improving. Lot of work left to do, though.

For "beginner-friendly systems", I'd refer to my previous reply; that's included in what I call "accessibility" there.

Bottom line: there's a lot of work left to do, but *culturally* speaking the NixOS community is in a pretty good place, at least by typical Linux standards.