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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots (blogs.gnome.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a truly WTF moment about messed up responses to X11 session removal in Gnome.

2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with the following, and I am not exaggerating one bit:

Fascists and Nazis
Wild Conspiracy Theories that make Qanon jealous
“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session
A culture war where Wayland is Gay, and X11 is the glorious past they stole from you

In my wildest dreams I could have never made this shit up. You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

This read like a story from some fictional universum I don't follow.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The link is broken, unfortunately

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Alternative URLs have been posted in thread.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I made peace with this forced transition. I went from using one of the available standards (X11) to retrocomputing (X11).

I tried Wayland and what a mess... But I get it. Everything changes, and tech moves on.

As for me and my needs, as long as X11 does its job, I'll keep on using it.

I've followed some of the discussions around the need to have a more modern framework for current graphical systems. I'm pretty confident devs have their hearts and minds in the right place. It's just that Wayland doesn't work for me.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Link is dead

I am not exaggerating one bit:

Wish I could believe you but I honestly don't believe anyone who says this anymore.

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