As someone who only started Linux almost 1 year now, June 16th, and used Wayland the whole tile. I am just going to see what happens with XLibre. Don’t particularly have anything for or against a project being worked on, if it fails it fails and works then it works.
I don’t know much of the back history like some longer term linux users may know so maybe I misunderstand something or have missing knowledge (And this thread has become complicated to follow), but Open Source has always had different projects going and I never saw this as any different, but anyone can choose whether to use it or not, some projects die off and some continue as a result. Worst thing is to be left with only one choice which is what people have with Windows, Adobe, etc.
But I have already delved in to BSD as a contingency, the main reason is so I am not stuck with just one type of OS like I did back on Windows.
That’s interesting. I switched to Xfce right before Plasma 6 came out for unrelated reasons so I’m not in touch that much anymore with what they are doing other than putting kwin’s x11 version on life support. I heard the desktop is generally buggier nowadays but I’m not sure.
I did try multiple BSDs but they all share similar problems. The primary reason to use a system that uses the Linux kernel instead of a BSD is hardware support. Even on an 9th gen intel iGPU I fail to have graphics on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD-based systems. Hardware support simply isn’t there.
Then we’ll have to wait for GNU Hurd kernel to complete, but I have not plans to leave Linux since it just works well for me when you leave out all the drama that comes with Linux, opensource projects and communities.
I deal with this kind of garbage everyday. People who just want to do, whatever they want to do, how they want to do, when they want to do it, despite any rules, guidelines, requirements…and when the shit breaks it becomes my problem. So yeah I completely get why they flushed him. Read the actual source material instead of regurgitating garbage.
Anything that is GNU or FSF is too ideological for their own good and so practicality is sacrificed. If it works that’s nice but I want to stick to the wider hardware support of Linux
“Suggests” “BS” “took too much time to deal with” “trainwreck” “the actual source” “garbage”. Your very emotions make you highly impartial, and so you have yet to respond to what I told you in my reply about technicality vs politics and lunduke, as well as the clear behavior of freedesktop in mastodon. And yes for your record I not only read the commit history of both the xorg and xlibre repos but I have been doing it since 2024. What you consider “regurgitating garbage” is what you yourself claim to be “the actual source”.
“when shit breaks” Xorg master has been broken a while by now, what kind of “rules and guidelines” are these? Simple, everything comes back to my original post in this thread about the quadrants of conformism. Merely following what is the norm (rule, guideline, requirement) for the sake of being the established norm, the accepted convention. The free-willed will fork and go his way, and if you were independent-minded as well you would either support that or not care about it, and yet you want to satisfy the sadistic pleasure of seeing a “trainwreck” of someone going his way, because you don’t want to accept the norm being broken.
Everyone is all about “freedom, hurray the free thinkers, the crazy ones, the fighters against the system” but the moment someone like that actually appears that person is outcasted for not conforming to the established norm.
There’s wine and linuxulator but that’s about it. For running windows games independently it should be nearly identical to Linux, but to run Steam games? You have to run the Linux-native port of Steam under Linuxulator and then I assume you run the Linux port of proton to run the Windows games, all under Linuxulator, or simply a Linux-native game under Linuxulator.
Setup is much messier for the Steam side of things
Sounds like not worth the hassle to switch since my entire game library are Steam games. Also not worth my time anymore to make the switch. Arch Linux is still very good as a daily driver for everything I use it for.
Quite frankly I don’t have time to respond to your whole wall of angry text. I speak simply from the perspective of someone who manages hundreds of systems, manages code bases, deals with contributors who don’t think things all the way through, and end users. If you don’t see what he was doing in a lot of those issues, then it is probably because you have a very different perspective from someone who has to get things done, without breaking things.
As to any sadistic pleasure I might get from watching a trainwreck, if you knew me you would know that is not the case, so maybe you should check your emotions at the door.
For someone who doesn’t have time to respond to my “angry text”, you sure have time to still respond to it while also sending a few other posts prior
So when it’s you expressing your opinion it’s normal, but when it’s others it’s a wall of angry text? Sure thing, if you didn’t care about any of this you wouldn’t have talked in the thread in the first place, and if you actually had arguments to use against me you would use them rather than try to belittle our conversation as me being “angry and writing a lot of text”. And so, what do you have to do that is better than replying to me, replying to this thread and other people?
Did you know that using professional experience as an argument validation is a fallacy? Either way you consider that I unlike you do not get things done and lack the perspective of someone who does and you couldn’t be any more wrong as I am an employed professional who also as well “gets things done”, so according to your fantasy we are actually “on equal ground”.
In the end all you have to answer for what I said is that “I don’t know what it is to get things done” and I should “check my emotions at the door” while not actually counter-arguing to the things I told you since the first post. In the end I couldn’t expect better from someone who has no better argument than calling a youtuber an “idiot” for having a different political view.
I guess what we can get out of this entire topic that Linux and opensource brings too much drama and politics, that the Linux kernel and all opensource projects should just shutdown and we should just all move back to using only proprietary software and proprietary operating systems like normal people like the rest of the world.
There ain’t enough time in a world for any of that OS switcharoo, some of us people are doing an actual work here by projecting and redirecting “personal attacks”, as soon as you start to loose an argument, you know!!!
