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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: 24 Apr 2025 20:35:53 GMT
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:31:51 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
wrote in <slrn100kfa7.edd.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>:

> On 2025-04-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-04-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>><https://www.phoronix.com/news/F43-Change-Wayland-Only-GNOME>
>>>
>>> By GNOME 50 next year upstream could completely remove its X11 session 
>>> support.
>>
>> Fortunately I can choose something NOT Fedora. If they go through with this, 
>> adios Fedora on the laptop I never use.
>>
>> Non-problem solved.
>>
> This was one of the reasons I left Fedora and went to Debian.  I had
> been tired of the frequent release cycle, and some of the politics, but
> the fact they would be earlier than other distros in deprecating X11
> pushed me to Debian.  Nothing against Wayland per-se, but it breaks some
> X applications, and my Window Manager.
> 
> The "developers" today are terrible, constantly breaking everything all
> the time.  How they feel it is acceptable to constantly break peoples
> workflows is beyond me.  Sheer arrogance.

I stopped using Fedora when they were removing code from openssl for which
they claimed they weren't sure about a patent incumberance.

It wasn't just flags in the SRPM that disabled elliptical-curve crypto,
they actually took the code for ECC out of openssl.

I jumped ship to Linux Mint, and I'm much happier for it.

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