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jrm4 19 hours ago

Again.

<expletive> ANY Linux project that strongly breaks backwards compatibility.

Not surprised that it's still messing with people even this late in the game.

pkulak 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I maintain a few Linux projects in my spare time.

I don’t really care about your opinion here.

charcircuit 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

xwayland still exists for backwards compatibility.

yjftsjthsd-h 18 hours ago | parent [-]

xwayland exists for application compatibility, but is essentially worthless for a11y tools

charcircuit 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Accessibility wasn't strongly broken so I didn't think that commentor was talking about that.

yjftsjthsd-h 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The article we're talking under is titled "Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living" and talks about how Wayland breaks a11y tools. The root comment says breaking backward compat is bad. What would they be possible be talking about except for Wayland breaking existing X11-based a11y tools?

jauntywundrkind 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fuck any statements that are absolutist?

Personally I think a full forever commitment to the past is a form of folly which I can only laugh at the premise of.

dismalaf 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No one is forcing anyone to use Wayland. There's DEs that use X11 and have no plans to move to Wayland.

Also no one is preventing this app from working, for whatever reasons the devs just haven't got it working.

Open source software is about freedom. Freedom to say fuck backwards compatibility or freedom to use X11 for the next 100 years.

Also the freedom for the X11 devs to say they don't want to maintain it anymore...

cmxch 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Intentional breaking of Xorg to frustrate use isn’t freedom. It’s harm.

dismalaf 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Who broke it? It works. It's still there. Plenty of distros use it still...

The maintainers just got sick of maintaining it and moved on...