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From: Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com>
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Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:09:59 -0400
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On 10/7/2024 17:56, Farley Flud wrote:
> Note: This post is for GNU/Linux experts only.  If you are just another
> distro lackey then, please, fuck off.
> 
> Today, I invoked the Pan newsreader.  It would not fucking scroll
> with the mouse wheel.  What the friggin' fuck?
> 
> Also, some other GUI programs would not scroll.
> 
> I've had this problem before, and, sure enough, it was libinput,
> a product of GNOME/Freedesktop that was the fault.
> 
> Once again, those incompetent assholes changed their device numbers:
> 
> xinput list-props 8
> ...
>          libinput Send Events Modes Available (270):     1, 0
>          libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (271):        0, 0
>          libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (272):        0, 0
> ...
> 
> They changed the "Send Events Mode Enabled" from 269 to 271.
> 
> What the fuck for?  Only those incompetent assholes will know.
> 
> In my X/FVWM3 boot I have to change it to:
> 
> xinput --set-prop 8 271 1 0
> 
> Why no fucking advanced notice?  Only those incompetent assholes will know.
> 
> GNOME/Freedesktop are the scourge of GNU/Linux.  Those bastards are
> just as bad as SYSTEMD -- and that's bad!
> 
> But the stupified distro lackey won't even bat an eye.  These useless
> creeps will just use their Ubuntu/Mint/Whatever without an inkling
> into the degeneration wrought by these incompetent assholes.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I wouldn't call myself a GNU/Linux expert by any means, but I build my 
system up from source code and never use a package manager so hopefully 
that counts for something.

I completely understand what you mean. I tried GNOME for a while way 
back in the day but after a while of updates to the source causing 
issues, I finally had enough after 3-4 years of it. So I stopped using 
GNOME. I haven't touched it in a long time. Sounds like nothing has 
changed. I did use KDE for a bit. It's still installed on my system but 
I mostly CLI everything I can and only startx when I absolutely need to 
(which isn't very often for the work I do). A lot of their broken 
updates don't make since. But you know, GNOME hasn't really been known 
for being very organized or making good decisions. Sure, they have a lot 
of good features in the product, but sometimes you just have to scratch 
your head and say what the hell were they thinking.