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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots (blogs.gnome.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. Would be curious to know what problems this has caused any actual normal users (not weirdo fascist tech bros).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In Ubuntu, Wayland causes my mouse cursor to freeze for about 1 second periodically. Doesn't do that in X11. I'm not about to spend who-knows-how-long troubleshooting this when I can just not use it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    They probably won’t get specific.

    But I will say that the comment here is a quintessential example of an anti Wayland/SystemD complaint.

    Nothing specific ever. Just “it’s a mess and buggy and slow”.

    This being said by me making this comment the original poster might come up with the some specifics just because they feel called out.

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