When I look at the official MSDN LINQ forum, I am surprised to see the categorical breakdown of the posts.  Just eyeballing the posts, I would guess that about 40% of the posts are environmental/release oriented.  By this, I mean that the post is concerning issues such as install problems, version issues, future release questions, and compatibility problems, etc.  The next 40% are database related, and the remaining 20% are miscellaneous.

What I find surprising is that such a large percentage of the posts are database related (LINQ to SQL), as opposed to general LINQ questions concerning queries of in-memory collections (LINQ to Objects), or XML questions (LINQ to XML).  I guess the reason I find it so surprising is that to me, LINQ adds so much more to in-memory collection queries and XML queries or generation than it does to database queries.  Don't get me wrong, I surely appreciate the ability to perform LINQ queries on a SQL Server database, but I ...