It's wild to me that apparently Xorg has literally 4 FUCKING YEARS worth of patches in the master branch, literally thousands, that just never got merged into stable because "X is dead" became a dogmatic statement, to the detriment of anyone who prefers Xfce or whatever. And no, this doesn't mean I think XLibre is a good project or whatever. I think it's dogshit. The main reason XLibre is maddening to me is because Enrico Weitgeit is an insane, toxic crank of a man. But he's also literally the only person to have even bothered doing anything with X for years. He did deserve his ban from FDo. He does suck. His project sucks. It's just ludicrous that it was even necessary. My favorite part is that screen tearing was a solved issue 5 years ago but never got pushed to the stable branch for… reasons?
#Yes-I'm-continuing-XLibre-discourse #sorry #Xorg #x11 #Linux #Unix #why-can't-we-be-normal-about-software-for-once #also-it's-extremely-funny-that-apparently-Xorg-had-to-start-making-new-code-changes-seemingly-out-of-embarrassment #no-Wayland-is-not-an-option-if-you-want-to-use-Xfce #it-doesn't-work #Wayback-isn't-ready






