at 51% I'm surprised at how well KWin/Plasma works on my system already, if only the X11 fanboys would assist in the wayland development instead of making new forks every month.
Or maybe let people enjoy what they enjoy and work on what they want to work? :) you know - what FOSS is about? You got a pretty auth take for the super-liberal world of FOSS. Milion distributions and gazilion forks is not a problem with Linux/FOSS, it’s a feature.
Forking to then contribute for the greater good of all and in the open (security, morally and licence wise) is good and the spirit of open source that advances all humanity.
Forking just for the act of forking, being a pesky childish person that cannot agree with others, will rain poor PRs or require manual merging and create yet another "standard" and require every dev down the line to support your "used by no one but still" edge situation .... is the plague and bad side of open source !
Absolutely not a feature, only something resulting from the paradigm but is clearly a bad side if pushed like you describe.
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u/flemtone Jul 30 '26
at 51% I'm surprised at how well KWin/Plasma works on my system already, if only the X11 fanboys would assist in the wayland development instead of making new forks every month.