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Yeah, this was my first thought. Got the KDE spin and gave it a try, my network was still limited to about a quarter of its usual. I've never seen that kind of weirdness before.
My first thought is Fedora doing something weird with Wifi drivers, as most of them are proprietary and Fedora doesn't ship that stuff by default, I'm pretty sure.
RPM Fusion is pretty much a must for any Fedora system, might be in there.
'she/her' usually only means one thing.
Working as intended!
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Another top project for entertainment is the mpv project. The commit messages are full of swear words and the developer wishing death on GNOME.
Can't think of anyone outside of Red Hat who genuinely likes the Gnome developers. Everyone else correctly sees they are massive nigger faggot retards.
 
metux seems like a complete schizoposter moron, has been known to submit shitty patches which break stuff in the past, and...

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56

I don't hold high hopes for this fork of Xorg but we shall see how it turns out.
He's an authentic whackadoodle, but unless he's setting himself up as the sole maintainer and doing everything himself that shouldn't really matter. I think there's a enough interested devs to make a go of it...
We'll see, I guess.
 
This project is hilarious, I found this issue (link/archive). GitHub has a stupid way of loading archives so all of the comments aren't there.

'she/her' usually only means one thing.

A project full of rightard/leftard/troontard/whatever drama could still end up very usable though.

But XLibre is a C project led by someone who doesn't understand the difference between 2^16 and pow(2,16) (or 1<<16) in C until someone explains it to him.
 
A project full of rightard/leftard/troontard/whatever drama could still end up very usable though.

But XLibre is a C project led by someone who doesn't understand the difference between 2^16 and pow(2,16) (or 1<<16) in C until someone explains it to him.
I don't think this disqualifies him. He can learn on the go. What matters is his willingness to learn from mistakes.
 
I don't think this disqualifies him. He can learn on the go. What matters is his willingness to learn from mistakes.
IMO it was temporary rush of shit to the brain, which even the most diligent and conscientious 10X suffers from occasionally.
 
metux seems like a complete schizoposter moron, has been known to submit shitty patches which break stuff in the past, and...

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56

I don't hold high hopes for this fork of Xorg but we shall see how it turns out.
But XLibre is a C project led by someone who doesn't understand the difference between 2^16 and pow(2,16) (or 1<<16) in C until someone explains it to him.

This does not make metux a schizoposter. Sure, it was a dumb mistake, but an easy one to make when reading code. I'm sure he knew that ^ is xor, but he overlooked it. It's similar to when your brain "corrects" text so that you don't notice a spelling error. You know what it should be and miss what it is.

When it was pointed out to him, he reacted with proper embarrassment and not schizo at all.
 
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I don't think this disqualifies him. He can learn on the go. What matters is his willingness to learn from mistakes.

IMO it was temporary rush of shit to the brain, which even the most diligent and conscientious 10X suffers from occasionally.

This does not make metux a schizoposter. Sure, it was a dumb mistake, but an easy one to make when reading code. I'm sure he knew that ^ is xor, but he overlooked it. It's similar to when your brain "corrects" text so that you don't notice a spelling error. You know what it should be and miss what it is.

Reading the XLibre thread at FreeBSD forums I just get "he's in over his head" vibes from this guy, and the impression that his patches at freedesktop / RedHat weren't exactly rejected for nothing. (or only to push Wayland or troongenda)

But we'll see how this plays out.
 
I like his attempt to minimize FDT's ban by saying "well they banned him for saying they were colluding against X11" because he also chose the fence-sitter route of not giving an opinion on whether he was correct, because no, Brodie, pushing someone out for trying to do development and then banning him for pointing that out is not better than banning him for forking the project. Of course, his theory would plausible, except that Lunduke caught these people getting upset at him (and anyone else) for thinking that they have the right to fork Xorg, because for some reason they think they own X11, and the Sebastian guy admitted that they "worked hard" to kill X11.
 
Reading the XLibre thread at FreeBSD forums I just get "he's in over his head" vibes from this guy, and the impression that his patches at freedesktop / RedHat weren't exactly rejected for nothing. (or only to push Wayland or troongenda)
I think you are a bit naive. I don't think ditching X11 support from GNOME and Ubuntu is a coincidence, when it happened IMMEDIATELY after his ban. Also Wayland is still half-baked, not ready to replace X11.
Probably you are right he is still a beginner and might screw up the code (some mistakes are indeed beginner level, and I consider myself weak at C programming), but I like his initiative. Looking at FreeBSD forums I only see some people criticizing him: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...r-all-the-fish-hello-xlibre.98054/post-705223 (https://archive.ph/wip/TeVOg)

Yeah, this one gave me the heebie-jeebies. The guy's doing "cleanup" and breaks admittedly ugly and crufty functionality that is required for the Nvidia driver.

Uhm ... interesting, looking at the MR description: "Various cleanups in randr codebase, eg. using calloc(), [...]" -- so there it is again! What the ... someone has an obsession with calloc(). I guess he saw crashes caused by uninitialized reads in the past and decided it's best to hide them unconditionally in the first place. If you'd ever do that, you'd hide that behind some build flag only for release builds (to reduce the risk of fallout in production) and do something like "the opposite" in debug builds (fill the memory with some known pattern to help with identifying the actual bugs).


Then again he was castigated for taking 16 hours to fix a bug in the main branch! As he rightly mentions, the only reason it's such a big deal to break the main branch is many people are running it because there hasn't been a release in forever. Note that the guy who found and filed the bug is a big defender of Mr. Weigelt.
Hm, looking at this in isolation, it indeed seems like a stark overreaction. But who knows, the picture might change with context. Regarding master (or main in other projects ... side note, I really don't care what's the default name for the default branch, but I hate the confusion that was created here unnecessarily ...), it's not uncommon these days to have a "always releasable" policy, even if it's regularly broken by accident, even if you have regular releases and ask (most) users to use these ... see e.g. FreeBSD's "src" repository. Obviously, this guy has a different model of that branch in mind, but if you contribute to some project, you should respect their policies.
I really can't make my mind up on this one. I'm going to wait and see.
Well, I made up my mind. I can't claim 100% confidence in my assessment, but it really seems to fit. Of course, first reading these silly MAGA, anti-DEI, anti-"woke" statements in the "fork drama" kind of set the stage, and quickly finding older stories (anti-vax conspiracy bs, "alternative" WW1/WW2 history) completed that. Even if it wasn't such idiotic nonsense, so many political statements in the totally wrong context (OSS development) would always raise an eyebrow.

But then, seeing this ridiculous bug linked here, I still had a look at the actual code, finally looking at several commits leading to that bug. And what I found were changes that were mostly pointless, and if not, not well thought of and "half-assed". Yes, with just 4 or 5 commits I looked at, and this guy probably having created thousands of them, it's not representative. But it's still an astonishing coincidence, cause what I found matches exactly what was stated in various FDO gitlab MRs and issues by other developers who got annoyed.

Just to get that straight, it's fine to introduce new bugs, even in your default branch, occassionally, cause there's simply no way to reliably avoid them (short of not doing any work at all). And then you find them and fix them. The problem here is not introducing new bugs, it's introducing bugs doing changes that don't make much sense (pointless, not adding any value). You're looking at them and just ask .... "Why ...?"

I like his attempt to minimize FDT's ban by saying "well they banned him for saying they were colluding against X11" because he also chose the fence-sitter route of not giving an opinion on whether he was correct, because no, Brodie, pushing someone out for trying to do development and then banning him for pointing that out is not better than banning him for forking the project. Of course, his theory would plausible, except that Lunduke caught these people getting upset at him (and anyone else) for thinking that they have the right to fork Xorg, because for some reason they think they own X11, and the Sebastian guy admitted that they "worked hard" to kill X11.
Brodie pretty much dismisses any criticism of SystemD, Wayland, RedHat (except for that scandal of closing the source of RHLE). It strikes me as one of those atheists/progressives trying to fact check or be contrarian to what I say. He even quoted guys like Hector Martin, Drew DeVault. This guy is IMO not as woke as many Linux devs, but he is safe and toes the line. But I like that he praises Vaxry and his Hyperland project.
 
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Brodie pretty much dismisses any criticism of SystemD, Wayland, RedHat (except for that scandal of closing the source of RHLE). It strikes me as one of those atheists/progressives trying to fact check or be contrarian to what I say. He even quoted guys like Hector Martin, Drew DeVault. This guy is IMO not as woke as many Linux devs, but he is safe and toes the line. But I like that he praises Vaxry and his Hyperland project.
He's certainly not as bad as someone like Nicco but he did in fact defend the GNOME Shaman (who wasn't even a real shaman, just some larper woman selling "shaman water"). He's basically a far leftist who wants to appeal to "both sides" and tries to be reasonable and do research. I would make a joke about how it's too hard for him to figure out that Mozilla is about to lose 80% of their income, and that's the reason why they're shuttering failed projects, but I actually watched the video with that title and it was clickbait, Mozilla wasn't even really shuttering their new AI project but rather they had already put it in the browser itself and got rid of the extension.
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reading these silly MAGA, anti-DEI, anti-"woke" statements in the "fork drama" kind of set the stage, and quickly finding older stories (anti-vax conspiracy bs, "alternative" WW1/WW2 history) completed that. Even if it wasn't such idiotic nonsense, so many political statements in the totally wrong context (OSS development) would always raise an eyebrow.
Confirmed in my belief that anyone who uses a demon as a mascot is a tranny or otherwise demonic (uhh, no, chud, it's just a heckin' computer reference). Although it will hurt adoption in the short term (I don't believe this current thing will last for that long) it was absolutely the right decision to make his anti-JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) statement, because you need to actively exclude these freaks. To quote that guy on Github, "it's filtering out the worst people". Also, the idea that people should not talk about politics in "oss" (it's clearly a FLOSS project, not oss) is an idiotic idea that presumes both that people should be forced to shut up about about their interests and that politics is less important than software, and besides, the people who say this nearly always mean "thing I disagree with" when they say "political" (including the non-wokes like Lunduke). How many of these leftists complaining about the "political" project are upset about GNOME or whoever else celebrating pride month? Tl;dr Metux should've gone the full way and used +NIGGER (not really).
Also, tried to find that WW1/2 revisionism (and gave up), but I did find this interesting interview he gave recently where he explains his goals https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/enrico-weigelt/
Apparently he hopes to get Linux phones actually working.
 
I've been using the experimental packages on the Artix repos and it has been working fine. The WIP security stuff like XNamespaces is promising and seems like Waylanders will run out of shit to claim advantages over.
If it's not Enrico who succeeds, someone will step up and keep Xorg from completely shriveling up and dying. I've said this before but Xorg has even bigger utility importance than window manager/desktop environment usage alone.
I think with an accessible project no longer under freedesktop.org and Red Hat, people will be more inclined to step up and contribute. A LOT of people hate freedesktop.org and Red Hat, and for good reason. A progressing fork away from those people will be a lot easier to pick up the reigns for.
 
I think with an accessible project no longer under freedesktop.org and Red Hat, people will be more inclined to step up and contribute. A LOT of people hate freedesktop.org and Red Hat, and for good reason. A progressing fork away from those people will be a lot easier to pick up the reigns for.
Bingo. GNOME doesn't even target Linux any more. I submitted a bug request once about a specific kernel option, which I disable. Their shitware doesn't work unless your Linux is configured EXACTLY as RedHat ships. Labeled NOTABUG and ignored. We needed liberation from the "FreeDesktop" retards, and finally someone who isn't afraid of being canceled stepped up.

This kind of cargocult bullshit by Redhat/IBM/corposoft is WHY I left programming as a career to be a blue collar grunt: it's obvious that it's incredibly controlled, and if you don't actively pursue Good Boy Points, you don't get a job, and it's only getting worse.
 
I think with an accessible project no longer under freedesktop.org and Red Hat, people will be more inclined to step up and contribute. A LOT of people hate freedesktop.org and Red Hat, and for good reason. A progressing fork away from those people will be a lot easier to pick up the reigns for.
Looking at the crazy amount of stars alone from the github this seems plausible.
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Confirmed in my belief that anyone who uses a demon as a mascot is a tranny or otherwise demonic (uhh, no, chud, it's just a heckin' computer reference).
Hey now nigger, don't go bashing on my BSD. Eventhough the whole "hur dur maga" opinion is retarded, as long as its all talk and the people espousing them continue to contribute good, non-RHEL poisoned code, I'm game. Same reason I don't dislike Antix Linux despite their poster boy being an ugly, lanky tankie with a "Free Palestine" and flag plastered up on the homepage. FreeBSD is leaps and bounds better than that of course, and OpenBSD doubly so. Hopefully we'll see Xlibre ports before 15.0 hits release day.
Apparently he hopes to get Linux phones actually working.
Hope so. We need a proper Linux phone distro since Postmarket cucked out by adding systemd shit a few months back and the GrapheneOS head dev is having his spack attack over Android potentially going closed source.
 
Reading the XLibre thread at FreeBSD forums I just get "he's in over his head" vibes from this guy, and the impression that his patches at freedesktop / RedHat weren't exactly rejected for nothing. (or only to push Wayland or troongenda)

But we'll see how this plays out.
The thing is he isn't alone in this fork, a lot of developers who wanted to contribute to X11 but were turned away by the Freedesktop cult will be attracted to Xlibre and will act as additional eyes to catch mistakes and to help contribute more support to it.

With the whole X11/Wayland mess happening right now, do I have to ditch Linux Mint? Its currently at LM21.
I don't see why you would need to, Linux Mint will likely continue to support X11 for at least six years after which either the Xlibre project will be mature or adopted or or switches to Wayland. To be honest I'm not really understanding the connection between X11 being forked and you having to abandon LM, as any other reasons would either apply to other distros or those other distros would create even more complications
 
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