Post #3324065

2026-06-15 06:34 UTC

I heard that XLibre developers are working on cleaning the codebase. And I strongly believe we still need X11 at least until Wayland is polished enough, which still seems untrue even in 2026. The concerns about Red Hat are not conspiracy, a commercial corporation controlling important parts of Linux ecosystem is a serious threat, so having an alternative is never bad. Linux won’t have a future if everyone just uses Red Hat approved solutions.

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@Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca 2026-06-15 11:57

You know that “until Wayland is polished enough” is at least a year ago for the overwhelming majority of people, right?

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@edinbruh@feddit.it 2026-06-15 15:21

github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56 Here is the x11libre dev not understanding what the ^ operand does in C. Would you trust running this person’s code as a display server? Sure. No one expects anyone to know everything from the start, and people improve with time. But this was metux’s understanding of C when he forked off xorg thinking he could do better than freedesktop.

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@kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-15 07:15

Two things, one as previously mentioned the codebase is a mess and even the best developers working on x11 tend to introduce regressions (the xlibre dev isn't so this is amplified). Second it absolutely is a conspiracy because red hat did everything in the power to save x11 until eventually they just kept using it (tbh it needed to be replaced two decades ago). As for your last point linux won't have a future if its aggressively held back by an army of enthusiasts who demand things never change and fragmented until software support is non-existent.

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@mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-15 10:00

The Linux ecosystem would whither and die without the likes of Red Hat.

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