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The Kicksecure team is promoting the "Self Support First Policy". It is a policy, usually employed by small open source teams with limited resources. It means utilizing all of your options from public sources first, then search engines, already existing content and answers, then sources inside the forum and only then consider reaching out in the forum and through direct support.

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1. Self support is often easier and more effective than suspected. It saves the user time and helps the developer team concentrate on improving the product
2. Please Use Search Engines And See Documentation First and read the FAQ. Most questions have already been answered.
3. Use the Kicksecure internal search engine and external search engines like DuckDuckGo and Startpage which the additional keyword "Kicksecure".
4. Search the Kicksecure User Forums and issue tracker for the problem.
5. If possible, search for a solution without the Kicksecure-specific part of the question, as it may have been answered in mainstream Linux fora.
6. Check if the problem can be replicated in vanilla operating system environments like Debian bookworm, Xfce.
7. See General Advice.
8. See documentation introduction, user expectations, footnotes and references.