I suspect part of that is the Xorg maintainers (who are also behind Wayland efforts) are actively trying to kill it and make it as unbearable as possible

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ploxiln an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm still using Xorg after all these years, on a laptop with 150% scaling, which I occasionally plug into an external monitor with 100% scaling. Somewhat surprisingly, it works great. (Cinnamon desktop, Ryzen 7840u integrated graphics. And also a desktop machine with Radeon RX 6800XT, but it's not surprising that still works great.)

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kibwen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's all open-source. If you think the maintainers are trying to sabotage the codebase, you have the freedom to fork it.

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throwawa14223 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t get all of what’s going on but from the outside it seems like the xLibre guys got a lot of negative attention for doing that.

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happymellon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you don't know what's going on, why comment?

A guy decided that after getting all his patches rejected because they cause tests to fail, doesn't compile, etc. that the problem is everyone else and decided to fork XOrg.

He then announced that the problem wasn't his code that didn't compile but DEI so based the entire forking around being a political conservative.

Everything I've seen written by him shows him to be insufferable, thats where the negative attention comes from.

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Ferret7446 an hour ago | parent [-]

There are a lot of distros that have xlibre packages for something that ostensibly doesn't compile.

I wouldn't trust the reason given by the people who have said that they're trying to kill Xorg for why they're rejecting patches from someone trying to improve Xorg

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happymellon an hour ago | parent [-]

> There are a lot of distros that have xlibre packages for something that ostensibly doesn't compile.

No one says xlibre doesn't compile, but good attempt at a distraction. Have you considered invading a country as an alternative way to distract from terrible views?

	▲	yjftsjthsd-h 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> No one says xlibre doesn't compile >> A guy decided that after getting all his patches rejected because they cause tests to fail, doesn't compile, etc. that the problem is everyone else and decided to fork XOrg. Emphasis mine, words yours.
	▲	yehat 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wow here it shows who's politically motivated and like it or not Xlibre probably felt the same way. Some people cannot sleep or chill if it is not theirs world view.

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DonHopkins 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

What a flippant low effort unoriginal unhelpful cliché cop out to make. Why don't you put as much time and effort and thought into your comments and money into supporting open source developers as you demand other people to put into forking code bases and rearchitecting enormous monolithic socially and economically entrenched pieces of software without getting paid for their time?

If you're going to criticize, then at least make some constructive comments about how you think they SHOULD do it instead of just telling them to fork off.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...