Comment by simoncion

11 days ago

> They're trying to "nudge" everyone.

Once again, Gentoo Linux proves (somewhat regrettably) to be one of the best Linux distros out there. OpenRC and Xorg as defaults, with SystemD and Wayland as supported options is quite a lovely way to do things.

> Gnome just removed the middle-click paste option.

Gnome removes useful things all the time. "The Gnome folks do something user-hostile just because they feel like it" isn't news; that's been going on for decades. This habit of theirs is a big reason why I've been using KDE for a very long time.

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account42  11 days ago

Unfortunately I don't think Gentoo will keep X11 support in e.g. KDE once its dropped upstream (which is already announced), they don't have the manpower for that.

And KDE itself is also not the bastion of user choice it once was, even if they haven't yet gone quite as hostile as Gnome.

  • simoncion  11 days ago

    > Unfortunately I don't think Gentoo will keep X11 support in e.g. KDE once its dropped upstream...

    IIRC, the only part that's dropping X11 support is Plasma. From [0]:

      There are currently no plans to drop X11 support in KDE applications outside of Plasma.
  
  This change only concerns Plasma’s X11 login session, which is what’s going away.

    I don't really care about Plasma; a taskbar to house a system tray and clock is nice, as is desktop wallpaper, but I don't particularly care about that stuff. I use very little of KDE: kwin, krunner, kmix, kcalc, okular, dolphin (rarely), and whatever handles the global keyboard shortcuts.

    Hell, on my ~twenty-year-old computer I don't use Plasma because it's a resource hog, but I still use KDE.

    [0] <https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-f...>

    • account42  11 days ago

      That's fair, but I would also read it as a sign of things to come for the rest. If you can't run full KDE on X11 there will not be many KDE developers caring about X11 support. KWin for example has already gained many bugs on X11 that I expect to never be fixed. And now KWin for X11 is split into a separate project which will hopefully mean fewer further regressions but probably also not much further development which means bitrot as things around it change.

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