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[โ€“] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Upon further reading, this proposal appears to have thoroughly been in bad faith with right-wing, socio-political virtue-signalling and/or advertising the X11Libre project as the actual goal.

Some highlights:

  • X11Libre does not even have a Fedora package available on copr, yet the proposal was to replace the consistently maintained X.org server.
  • Bonus to the above: The submitter conflates "not adding new features because X11 is planned for deprecation" with "unmaintained".
  • There is one maintainer of X11Libre and the fork is less than a month old.
  • The maintainer of X11Libre purportedly "doesn't believe in" automated testing.
  • The maintainer, when actively contributing to X.org caused multiple breakages and made code review problematic with their 800+ merge requests. This includes breaking the ABI.
  • On the code quality front, the maintainer also appears to have failed to understand the difference between XOR and exponents in the C syntax.

Sidenote: The two above make me suspect that AI slop may be prominent, beyond the general code quality issues.

  • X11Libre openly admits that future Nvidia compatibility is unlikely.
  • The cited benefit of the new features is adding security and the like. However, under the X11 model, use of these extensions is "opt-in", making the utility and security benefits questionable (beyond the fact that all major DEs are moving to Wayland and deprecating X11 support).

Extra double-bonus Metux has history of being problematic enough that Linus roasted him for speading anti-vax disinformation.

EDIT: I remembered that there was something else that I found reading through that thread that makes it pretty clear that the change request was in bad faith.

CW: AntisemitismThe user "harsh noise" that admitted to creating their account just to post in the thread has some very antisemitic (actual hatred of Jewish people, not anti-zionism) posts on xitter:

Naled antisemitism

Thread about CoC violation

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago
  • On the code quality front, the maintenance also appears to have failed to understand the difference between XOR and exponents in the C syntax.

How does this cursed code even work ๐Ÿ˜ญ