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Comment by firesteelrain

8 months ago

Never coded, made a change or updated X11. It always just works. But reading this thread that spawned some of the feelings around the ‘fragile’ codebase sounds like it is really hard to work on

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797

This is hilarious, can totally understand the fork and will take a look

  • Enrico seems like a prolific maintainer but also a frustrated one.

    • From what I've seen he hasn't actually addressed any bugs or features in xorg... ever. I'm not sure if that even grants the title of "maintainer". Shuffling code around is fun and easy, but not necessarily productive.

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    • Literally everyone but one person are constantly shittalking and trying to gaslight him.