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There is just so much wrong with this. It's not a hot take. Its a bad one. The dislikes speak for themselves.
Its just a long pointless rant by like 3 people and "many developers" (which judging by the way that end part is written I'm guessing it's just one guy and 2 developers
I was going to say "oh. This is an old post that just surfaced" but that does not seem to be the case. Someone is wrong in 2025
OP, the far-right dipshit who forked to XLibre is so inept that he thought the XOR operator in C was for exponentiation – something one semester in undergrad CS would clear up. Cool your fucking jets and go cope somewhere else.
Might happen to someone juggling different programming languages all day. Tells a lot about his skill level of course, but we’ve all been beginners. I’m more concerned about the apparent lack of unit tests.
I can say with confidence that I have not – ever in my life – attempted to not just contribute to but be the primary maintainer of such a complex, low-level, crucial piece of software when I was that much of a beginner. And their GitHub bio reads "Old Linux hacker and kernel maintainer. Xorg developer, Xlibre founder/maintainer".
Keep in mind here that "Xorg developer" means "came in, pushed dozens of shoddy patches that are now being reevaluated for how fucking trash they were, acted like a petulant little bitch when confronted about my lack of quality, and turned it into a conspiracy theory". They do not get the benefit of the doubt. They are a moron who doesn't know the basics of C.
In that case, yes, not knowing what ^ does in C is fucking embarrassing.
Eat a dick. Wayland was created by the maintainers of X.
Suck my balls! Wayland works way better than X11 on my KDE desktop with multiple monitors and gives me a sweet performance boost when playing games with Proton-GE.
They say X is 'better' but doesn't it lack even basic VSync support to prevent screen tearing? I always remember awful performance when running X because everything stuttered with so much tearing on every system I used.
Yeah X11's tearing was a nightmare because it lacked proper compositing integration - the vsync had to be handled by a seperate compositor which led to all those stuttering issues you mentioned (and why gaming on X11 was so frustrating without a ton of tweaks).
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