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1. Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 01:04:48 JST Drew DeVault

   The story of Wayland:

   1. No one wanted to maintain X11 because it sucked
   2. We made Wayland and it's much better
   3. A vocal minority of change-averse people complained with little to no factual basis
   4. They were asked to muster some labor to maintain X11
   5. None of them did
   6. All of the people who actually do get work done eventually stopped listening to them and moved on with Wayland

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 01:04:47 JST Drew DeVault

     in reply to

     Fun fact, *I* didn't like the fact that you couldn't take a screenshot on Wayland... so I bloody well implemented screenshots on Wayland and now people *still* bitch about it when literally every goddamn wayland compositor supports screenshots, most of them thanks to yours truly

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 01:04:48 JST Drew DeVault

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     Some of these detractors built a tottering pile of godawful hacks on top of X11 where every piece depends on another critical design flaw of X11 and are upset that by fixing all of these design flaws their pile of hacks fell over when no one wanted to maintain the load bearing side of their hacks

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 01:04:48 JST Drew DeVault

     in reply to

     The beauty of free software is that if you don't like something, you can fix it! But if you don't like something and you bitch for 10 years because no one else is fixing it for you then you're just an asshole, dude.

     Kuba Orlik repeated this.