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    I prefer Wayland (.social) though (media.kbin.social)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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    [–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Twitter is doing what? Why? ???

    [–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!

    [–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

    It totally worked for Xfinity

    [–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

    This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~

    Nvm figured it out

    [–] spamspeicher@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago

    Not why. X.

    [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up

    So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter

    [–] Gooboob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    I thought x.com became paypal

    [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition

    [–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

    PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.

    [–] starman@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.

    [–] blake@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.

    [–] khelmr@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

    Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?

    [–] Xeelee@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

    Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.

    [–] sci 1 points 2 years ago

    musk likes X better

    [–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago

    The bottom one is just U+1D54F.

    https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

    [–] yiliu@informis.land 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?

    I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic

    [–] yiliu@informis.land 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...

    I guess those are good memories?

    [–] oo1@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    yeah
    that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
    . . . after the 25th edit.
    what a time to be alive.

    [–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

    Looking up modeline's for your monitor...

    [–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

    Good because they're in the past and we don't have to do this anymore...

    [–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

    I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.

    [–] croobat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Bro really trying to trademark a character.

    [–] zombuey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    How could microsoft trademark a letter?

    [–] zombuey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    apparently easily.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

    Ridiculous which companies own all of the alphabets?(i'm sure they do)

    [–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

    This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.

    [–] Resol@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

    Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

    [–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

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    [–] Fer24@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

    Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X

    [–] Shit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

    Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?

    [–] gaw@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 years ago

    Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬

    [–] SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

    X.org propaganda!

    [–] nitefox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    Neither of them sparks joy

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

    both don't spark joy.
    x11 is a mess.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

    XXX?

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