The Nasty Smear (and Stereotype) of "Neckbeard" or "Greybeard" is Ageism
Beware the intolerant "corporates" and their censorship regime.
If their go-it smears backfire (e.g. IBM staff calling people "nazis" despite IBM itself working for actual nazis), they will soon resort to stereotypes, e.g. "Neckbeard" or "Greybeard".
This is the sort of stuff they might try to volley at critics of Wayland, who aren't really haters of Wayland, they just aren't interested in using it (because what exists already generally works fine).
The exact same smears and trolling tactics have long been used against people who wanted an option other than systemd, whose head developer and founder is a Microsoft employee (that is a fact and systemd as a whole is controlled and developed by proprietary software of Microsoft).
When people say "Neckbeard" there is no age connotation, except perhaps young adolescents, who can do technical things including code but aren't likely to have neckbeards. When the term "Greybeard" is used it's actually an insult against a person's age because "people begin to spot their first grays during their 30s or 40s," according to a dyes pusher. So they stir up generational feuds, that is what they do. They try to tell young people with typically low salaries that those "evil" people who are "old" keep them behind and stand in the way of "progress". I saw those smears when I worked in Sirius a decade ago; someone told me that systemd "haters" were "greybeards".
Imagine people saying things like these:
- Using emacs is for gays
- Firefox is for gurlies
- Microsoft is for Jews
- Apple is for trans people
- Amazon is for autistic people
- BIOS is for Romany Gypsies
- HDR is for people with slanted eyes
We would not tolerate it, would we?
So enough with that "greybeards" nonsense. █