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

submitted 4 days ago by Mihies@programming.dev 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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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Oh, I totally know there's been a lot of politics in the Foss community and that some of the people are nasty, I'm just flabbergasted that someone would try to connect such disparate things.
I can comprehend a Nazi Foss enthusiast having opinions on race and on window managers. It's when they start having racist opinions on window managers that it all flies out the window. It's like being opposed to copper plumbing because it's too Norwegian.

Just a case of seeing irrational people who act irrationally act irrationally in a new way and being shocked that the irrationality doesn't follow a pattern or stay in topic.