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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This might be the first time I've ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it's almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.

Check out this one. It took like three posts!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid's toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

It's so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There's absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any post mentioning Wayland or btrfs is guaranteed to have at least 60 comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Obviously. X11 and ZFS are far superior. I use Arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is some, but unless it gets really uncivilized no action really gets taken. a couple users have been banned

IMO I prefer it that way myself though. you either learn something neat, or engage in a class shittery. lots of other more polite forums such as this if phoronix forums isn't to taste

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's hilarious.

"Mozilla is allowing you the option to build Firefox without X11 dependencies"

"Mozilla hates freedom!!!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fyi, you've linked to page 4, here's where it starts.

I hope the phoronix forums never die

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Man, that guy really likes X11.