Sam Bent, 8 months ago (at this time), covered XLibre, which is essentially a fork of XOrg that wants to clean up the codebase, modernize it, and fix the security holes that lasted for years on XOrg.
Meetux, the developer, became persona-non-Grata in FreeDesktop, IBM, RedHat, and possible GNOME circles, simply because he wanted to fix Xorg so people have an option on what they want to use.
It’s also why I won’t kowtow to IBM, GNOME, and FDO’s demands, due to technical merit being moot.
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That’s the one written by the Nazi, right?
Nice ad-hominem.
why I use xlibre…
Because you are delusional. Next question?
Just remember that this is the kind of code quality of xlibre, the guy doesn’t even know C operators and is trying to write a fucking display server:
Meetux was banned after breaking the xserver multiple times, and then acting like everyone was conspirating against him about it.
How is it delusional when even sysadmins absolutely hate how Wayland works?
Can you explain which specific improvements XLibre has implemented that X doesn’t have?
Why should I use one guy’s pet project over the original that’s maintained by a much bigger group for over 20 years?Basically, take Xorg, improve security and usability, but don’t go the Wayland route and break almost everything that requires certain permissions.
He didn’t became persona non grata, because he wanted to fix things. He’s persona non grata because he keept pushing breaking changes in the stable main branch. And when others on the team asked him to stop. He pushed back entitled and refused. So they gave him the boot.
I wish him the best of luck with his fork. He’s going to need it as it will largely be all him. As he’s not a responsible or team player. I’d say the xorg group could do better too. But they weren’t unjustified expelling him.
Wayland pushes a lot of breaking changes from what I’m aware of, while X is still stable. These are Wayland devs who are projecting what they’re doing onto people who use XOrg/XLibre.
It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies.
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Together we’ll make X great again!Pass.
I hope it fails
You say this like there’s any chance of it not failing
Thanks. It smelled like that, saved me a click.
That’s not the point I’m trying to make. Did you read the bottom line, where I talked about technical merit, not political merit? Being apolitical (neutral) is actually the best you can do for something like this.
Come on! Think before writing!
“This piece of shit is so good technically that you can close both eyes on how he’s a piece of shit”
I will never work, collaborate or hire someone like that. It’s not for nothing in recrutement we have Technical + Human assessment on the candidates. Because BOTH matters.
Pushing the “apolitical” narrative is just how to lower your values and it’s a NOGO for decent people.
What you’re doing is calling for me to choose a side, instead of being neutral. I’m going based upon technical merit, not so much political merit. I don’t even care for politics that much, considering I’ve been neutral on Lemmy.
Ok, so what did xlibre achieve then? Is multi-monitor with mixed refreshrates + vrr a thing yet?
As far as I’m aware, that was already a thing somewhat with XOrg. It may have been in alpha state, but it was something. Wayland is more broken with it from what I’ve read on the issue.
Paraquoting an adjudicated (means guilty) rapist, 34 time convicted felon is hardly being noncommittal.
Wayland is fine. Xorg was cool, and might still have a few uses, but we’ve moved past a point where it should be the default.
If sysadmins have to deal with how broken Wayland is, that tells me all I need to know.
Proof is this: https://stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app/
Lol good luck with that shit
I’ve had a wonderful time with XLibre, actually. Granted, Picom is broken (it always was, to be fair about it), though I figured that out real quick.
lol
