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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots (blogs.gnome.org)

submitted 1 week 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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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (27 children)

I do think ditching X11 is still slightly premature. For all its more modern features, there's still a lot that Wayland either hasn't implemented yet or "can't do" because of its "security model."

[–] XenGi@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Can you name something that's missing? Because I can't think of anything relevant.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I"ve been experimenting with both Cosmos and XFCE Wayland.

Color pickers, screenshot, and window recording/streaming all don't seem to work or require Wayland-only packages that are extremely primitive in features and use.

Alt+tabbing out of games, whether fullscreen or windowed, also doesn't seem to work.

Wallpapers and cursors installed to the standard location where the distro installs all of them don't seem to be usable. I have to manually copy them to somewhere in the home directory in order to use them.

Screensavers seem to be unusable except for one port of xscreensavers.

I know OpenSUSE plans to eliminate x11, so I'm trying to get used to Wayland, but I do hope it's more developed before I have to use it full time.

[–] 90s_hacker@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

tbf, aren't both of those still in early stages? I don't think I've had any issues with those on KDE wayland

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