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> One would be tempted to say that perhaps they have a vested interest in making it seem like Xorg can not be fixed, even though this patch was merged in 2022,
by bitwize 1y ago
> One would be tempted to say that perhaps they have a vested interest in making it seem like Xorg can not be fixed, even though this patch was merged in 2022, normal users still cannot use this feature in 2025.
This has passed into the "yes, it's happening, and here's why it's a good thing" phase of conspiracy-theory damage control:
https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161 https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161
The Xorg developers do not want to maintain the legacy X codebase. They do not want to perpetuate the legacy X architecture. If withholding features is what finally gets people to suck it up and switch to Wayland, if it gets app and toolkit developers and fucking NVIDIA to drop their X codepaths and put all their development effort behind Wayland, that's what they will do.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google do this all the time. They drop support for the old and busted and put all their effort into the new hotness. By and large, their user bases do not complain. Only Linux users are autistic enough to go "but muh 40-year-old 'network transparent' [lol, not really, watch the Daniel Stone talk again please] display server written for 8bpp framebuffers long before modern fucking GPUs emerged".
As for Xlibre... to give you an idea of how clownshoes the development community is on that thing...
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56 https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56
Not to mention being a Nazi bar. People are starting to wake up and realize what a security risk Nazi- and far-right-authored code is. Alpine already has a security exclusion on it for that reason. Other distros will follow suit.
- anthk 1y agoXenocara and NetBSD's X server are good enough.
- bitwize 1y agoThose track Xorg's development, which is moribund.
- anonfordays 1y ago>Not to mention being a Nazi bar It's not a Nazi bar, it's the complete opposite of that by welcoming anyone from any race and background. Ends up even worse, Wayland and Freedesktop are pedo bars, and they've been projecting about "safe spaces" this entire time. They were harboring a violent sexual predator. The Mastodon profile you linked is to a profile with ghoulish antisemitic screeds. Delusionally calling anyone and anything you disagree with "Nazi" and "far-right" has run its course.
- throwaway7356 1y agoMeanwhile on the Xlibre mailing list: https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for-respectful-and-civilized-communication,16 https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for... The official telegram also has antisemetic memes, messages mentioning "gene therapies" for COVID and other stuff that doesn't seem problematic to moderators. I guess it is "normal" for the community there given the Xlibre founder posts stuff like https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181010.191925.ee1331b6.en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn..., 9/11 truther or anti-vax conspiracy stuff himself. From outside it looks like something one would not want to interact with.
- anonfordays 1y ago>Meanwhile on the Xlibre mailing list: You mean the troll that in that same thread is called out for being an off-topic spammer and blocked? https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for-respectful-and-civilized-communication,10 https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for... You're making the case for Xlibre here lol. >The official telegram also has antisemetic memes Yes, leftist spammers are posting antisemitic memes and getting banned, nothing new. >"gene therapies" for COVID and other stuff that doesn't seem problematic to moderators. Similarly being called out for being off topic. Meanwhile, at Freedesktop.org and Debian: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ehEoRkMtoT8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=ehEoRkMtoT8 >I guess it is "normal" for the community there given the Xlibre founder posts stuff like I guess it is "normal" for the freedesktop.org and Debian community given one of the Debconf25 main stage speakers and Debian release managers is a convicted violent pedophile that they're platforming: https://www.offenderradar.com/offender-details/jeremy-c-bicha-of-florida-176493 https://www.offenderradar.com/offender-details/jeremy-c-bich... From outside it looks like something one would not want to interact with.
- throwaway7356 1y ago> You mean the troll that in that same thread is called out for being an off-topic spammer and blocked? Where was this valued community member blocked? I thought the Xlibre project rejects censoring people for their political positions... > Yes, leftist spammers are posting antisemitic memes and getting banned, nothing new. They aren't getting banned. And claiming these are "leftist spammers" would sound more believable if the project founder would not have a history of posting how regretful it is that Holocaust denial is not legal is his home country together with crude theories about World War 2 on Linux distribution mailing lists. Apparently the Xlibre community also likes to call out 11 year old children "pedophiles"... From outside, calling children "pedophiles" seems a rather strange concept, but you be you. Though some might find the Xlibre and Lunduke communities being obsessed with investigating and collecting information on preteen children somewhat questionable.