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Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.
Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.
Edit: added some words
Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below
How the fuck you gonna enforce "no dei"? You gonna demand every contributer is white, male, Christian and cishet?
Damn. As a German! That's shameful. And of course utterly nuts.
I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone's interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/
Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you'd think. Or rather Libertarian.
FWIW, X.org is Libre already.
And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.
For the person that diehard refuses to switch development to Wayland
This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.
X11 is dead, stop wasting time on it
It's not dead if people are still developing and using it.
You are right, it's more like zombieware. No noteworthy DE wants to support it anymore, yet is has not been dropped completely
No noteworthy DE
You mean, Gnome or KDE? KDE hasn't announced they're dropping X, AFAIK.
There are a great many window managers that don't support Wayland. If herbstluftwm ran on Wayland, I'd try switching again. But it doesn't, and the project has stated they have no intention of adding support.
Good to know some people are still working on X.
Git repo for those who're interested
Is it though?
Hmm
Welp
Seriously though, fuck this guy and his project. Refuse to support it. In fact, use an alt account to introduce subtle bugs and flaws to the codebase if you can. It’s always a good day to fuck with Nazis. And this right here is a project run by a Nazi.
Edit: if anyone dares to whinge about “getting political” with my comment in this community: this is a screencap of the fucking README.MD. It’s an inherently, overtly political commentary in the project that’s clearly friendly to an authoritarian regime. Fuck all that noise.