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Something curious is going on surrounding X.Org and it's forks... (youtu.be)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by fwygon@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Video Title: Open Source People are Fighting to Kill Open Source Projects

My take; since the comments have buried it under the angry defense of Wayland and Freedesktop by trying to dismiss the video creator (who isn't me).

I do think the video makes a pretty good point about how people who attack others for continuing X11 is very much violating the ethos of FOSS communities in general; and I have no doubts that if the claims made in the video are true; I think folks like Stallman would be kind of upset with people behaving that way because it only harms the FOSS community as a whole.

You may not agree with people who want to use X11 for their very niche use cases. That’s fine. But I do question any motives behind any kind of behavior that is not only ceasing all development on X11, but actively blocking and sabotaging others who want to work on X11 from doing so.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I'm oblivious to what is going on. I was under the impression that xorg was obsolete because it had fundamental flaws that moving forward to Wayland would fix.

I'm on xorg still using Mint, and have not moved forward yet because I believe I was going to lose some sort of functionality. I can't comment on things being better over there or what.

Can anyone explain why this video is just being quietly down voted? It lends credibility to his argument.

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm also on Mint and X11, and intended to stay there for the moment specially since reading the latest David Revoy fully Linux FOSS guide for artists, which showed that many things are still behind in development, this may have changed since then but at least back then i decided to let it cook more before trying it out. I hope development has advanced enough that you can switch to it full time already but honestly i have no idea if it's there yet.

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