Comment by jrm4
2 days ago
Again.
<expletive> ANY Linux project that strongly breaks backwards compatibility.
Not surprised that it's still messing with people even this late in the game.
2 days ago
Again.
<expletive> ANY Linux project that strongly breaks backwards compatibility.
Not surprised that it's still messing with people even this late in the game.
I maintain a few Linux projects in my spare time.
I don’t really care about your opinion here.
No one is forcing anyone to use Wayland. There's DEs that use X11 and have no plans to move to Wayland.
Also no one is preventing this app from working, for whatever reasons the devs just haven't got it working.
Open source software is about freedom. Freedom to say fuck backwards compatibility or freedom to use X11 for the next 100 years.
Also the freedom for the X11 devs to say they don't want to maintain it anymore...
Intentional breaking of Xorg to frustrate use isn’t freedom. It’s harm.
Who broke it? It works. It's still there. Plenty of distros use it still...
The maintainers just got sick of maintaining it and moved on...
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Fuck any statements that are absolutist?
Personally I think a full forever commitment to the past is a form of folly which I can only laugh at the premise of.
xwayland still exists for backwards compatibility.
xwayland exists for application compatibility, but is essentially worthless for a11y tools
Accessibility wasn't strongly broken so I didn't think that commentor was talking about that.
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