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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

switch from Gnome to a cooler window manager 🤷

I think that's easier for us to say, who actually do use something cooler. But for those whose workflow is messed up by this, I understand why they're upset. But yeah, it's time to move into the future, for real. High time.

[-] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago

You'd think they would be used to it since every update ruins their workflow too.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What? The last major change to the gnome workflow was going from vertical to horizontal workspaces, and that was several years ago.

[-] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly just trash talking how so much basic functionality is in add-ons that break frequently with updates.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can disable version checking and have them run if you want to, although that's probably not advisable.

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