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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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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I"ve been experimenting with both Cosmos [I'm assuming you mean Cosmic, System76's upcoming DE?] and XFCE Wayland.

So the only Wayland implementations you've tried are ones in Alpha or Beta?

Tbh that seems like an unfair comparison. You're comparing alpha and beta software to production-ready software, and complaining about it not being as stable.

Wayland is a lot more mature on Gnome or Plasma. I started using Wayland on Gnome in 2019, and aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card a number of years ago, the only issue I've ever had was screen sharing on discord, which was 'Discord are pathologically against updating their electron version' issue, not a Wayland issue.