This might be the funniest possible direction for this to go. Purported savior of X11 and anti-DEI dogwhistling developer writes X11 code so bad, asked to leave commit history.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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"There was also a revert to avoid unnecessarily breaking the NVIDIA driver. It was also commented by NVIDIA that some additional requests for other reverts are coming too."
Did this dude break resume/suspend on nvidia in x11? I think last year x11 on nvidia just stopped suspending at some time (I was trying some things on x11) and in wayland it worked, I even moved to xorg-git, but the errors persisted. If this is related, dude was/is the worst developer ever.
Very likely.
Both sides however have behaved badly and both have valid points. Brodie had a decent video on it. Though for me the BS DEI claims are beyond the pale.
The Dev in question was pushing a number of breaking changes. Which yeah, if you're pulling from git you're gonna git bugs every once in a while. The problem is releases are so infrequent. People are pulling from the git and trying to use it for daily use. In order to get more up to date features. Some of the free desktop guys got a little too harsh with him. But then he sort of let loose with this whole Dei Etc psychosis. Which did him no favors.
Yeah, I see that the fight is a bit ambiguous, CoC, etc, but even linus himself got to him in 2021 because of mRNA vaccines. His work was important, but breaking things in a project that's so old, and with so many things depending on it (like my old computer), and turning into Lunduke 3.0 seems very bad.
This happened in a release version and in the git version too, I tried the git version after seeing the problem in the release version.
Edit: Idk, but this blunder might have make xorg deprecated a lot faster than even before this.
Yeah I think Brody was spot on with his assessment that this is exactly what a fork should be for. And people who want it will be able to use the fork Etc and X work will have its stability for now.
I only have a general perception of what happened with Lunduke. But I don't know the specifics about what happened etc. Who was 2.0? Lol I wasn't even aware of that necessarily for there to be a 3.0
Yeah, I think a fork fits that purpose too.
About Lunduke 2.0, Idk, but i feel a mixture of distrotube (like the gun video) + luke smith + a lot of people from that era maybe.
Heh, I'm aware of DT but know nothing of a gun video. But he certainly gave a vibe like the 8 bit guy. So not surprised.