I think separating them improves the user experience for regular users, which I think counts as a real advantage. As I wrote in the body text:
As-is seeing an indication of a comment for a post only for it to turn out to be a bot is slightly disappointing at best, and mildly confusing at worst when their display has been disabled.
It’s a small detail, but small details add up when it comes to the user experience.
Have you been by !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip yet? Nevertheless, this community should work just as well.
There’s also !linux4noobs@programming.dev or a community with the same name on Lemmy World. When specificity in a search fails, falling back to broader/more basic terms may help (e.g. searching for Ubuntu or Linux).