Re: XLibre official support?
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the
> > > XLibre community.
> > >
> > > https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XLibreIsExplicitlyPolitical
> >
> > The title of that blog article is "The XLibre project is explicitly
> > political and you may not like the politics". Lol.
>
> I think you have stopped reading there and not understood the author's
> point. The author doesn't reject XLibre because it is explicitly
> political, he rejects XLibre because he doesn't like XLibre's politics
> in particular.
I think you have read superficially and not understood Liam at all. In
the comments of another El Reg article about xlibre he says:
Liam Proven
Re: X11 over network connection
> For the first 60 years of my life I'd never once needed or used an
> ambulance. Doesn't mean I was stupid enough to suggest they weren't
> needed by others.
Good for you. My first time on life-support, I was 27.
Anyway, I can't tell for sure if you are questioning my position or
endorsing it.
I strongly agree with you: I do not personally want or use this, but I
know that it is absolutely critical to lots of people and as such I
want to see it remain.
Wayland offers me nothing I want except for one (1) feature: different
(and non-integer) scaling factors on different monitors. That is the
_only_ thing it does that I want, and if the price of admission is
using GNOME or KDE Plasma then I don't want in thanks. I will stay
outside.
And on X he recommends this article:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html
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