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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Use NVIDIA as primary GPU on laptops (not offload)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R575-Wayland-Plans

Currently you can only set NVIDIA to offload some of the rendering, but not as primary GPU like X11

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#Use_NVIDIA_graphics_only

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah nvidia is always a pita. But even that gets better.

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