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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's super confusing, like I feel many commenters there live in a different universe. They talk about how Wayland is a failure that has failed to get off the ground, while it's the default in most of the major distros at this point.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's really good so long as you aren't trying to use it with Nvidia especially for gaming in my experience

[–] GenBlob@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Once in a while I venture their forums as a morbid curiosity and it always delivers.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Backslash@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly, the guy who made the referenced post, 'avis', is allegedly the new name of 'birdie', a well-known troll on the forums who was banned a while back. Basically everyone there agrees that it's him and no action is taken against this new account.

I don't think there is any doubt that avis is artem lol his profile even says banned in it as a joke. as long as his behavior is better, which it has been even if only marginal, there won't be an issue. even if he does nearly single handedly cause most of the 5+ page... debates