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@stefano well written! I found myself the *bsd communities very welcoming when I came to freebsd in late 2018. I feel there is a lot less toxicity - maybe because the community is also smaller than that of the various Linux distributions. Regarding the fact that it is not a batlle - I remember the time we had more than a dozen of window managers available, all differents, and no one thought it was bad - it was a key benefit : make what you want with your computer, make it your own. Maybe I ´m an old boomer, but I find that it’s a bit too standardized now… :)

@stefano My personal reflection on the [Free]BSD community is that it is mature, friendly and not very "noisy". I guess it's in the eye of the .... and so on. 😍

@stefano

Reading your article, I was able to identify the type of character depicted in the other article you cited.

Unfortunately, for some time now, a segment of the Linux community—let's call it the "mainstream"—has been increasingly espousing this "if it's new and shiny, it's good; if it's old, it's therefore bad and no longer efficient" sentiment (I won't mention which community; those who want to know will understand).

"They don't want to accept the new" is now used by these individuals as a synonym for "you're forced to accept this new software because we've decided it's better, and that's it." It's no longer a question of being able to decide whether or not to use this or that software; you're forced to accept it, the communities of these "old software" or those who merely fork it are being denigrated and censored.

Right below your article, I was offered this other article from this summer that connects well with this one and sums up the current situation nicely.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/

@stefano Interesting. It is my experience, following from the side lines, that anyone remitely conservative or christian, is aggressively being hated upon and hounded in many open source communities.

I think perhaps only OpenBSD and most likely Omarchy are two communities where these groups are allowed to be themselves.