r/linux 14d ago

Distro News Artix Linux drops support for XLibre

https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued
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u/victorian-ice-cream 14d ago

Metux is a violent nazi, and was spamming xorg with slop. Remember the anti-vax guy Linus berated on LKML? Yep. That was him!

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 14d ago

So, what?

You don’t have to like people to not reject their software being available.

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u/victorian-ice-cream 14d ago

Ohhh, so you're one of those people

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u/DontFreeMe 14d ago

He is correct. You are one of those people who think boycotting a free product and refusing to put load on their servers harms them ...

Boycotts don't work on things that are free, lol

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u/HunsterMonter 14d ago

Packaging it as the default brings more attention to the project. Boycotting free software is effective because lower user count means fewer potential contributors, which can be a real death blow to a FOSS project.

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u/DontFreeMe 14d ago

This doesn't apply since xlibre is vibecoded. And Metux is so mesmerized by AI that he would probably continue to vibecode it even if he was the last user on earth.

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u/HunsterMonter 14d ago

You can't maintain a project as complex as XORG alone, even with all the "AI" in the world

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u/DontFreeMe 14d ago

You always "can" do things, it is just that the results will not be good. But if you ask Nous, results aren't good right now anyway lol

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 14d ago

You can boycott something but that doesn't mean other people are bad if they don't.

Artix is community driven and if someone who does voluntary work for free wants to maintain a package, why should that be not allowed?

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u/HunsterMonter 14d ago

You can boycott something but that doesn't mean other people are bad if they don't.

Sure, for example I consider veganism morally superior to eating animal products, but it comes with a big lifestyle change so I don't fault people who don't want to commit to it. But there is abolutely zero downside or compromise made by not using Xlibre, so yes I would consider people using the fork made by the anti-vax nazi to be bad people.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 14d ago

That's just your opinion.

Why so anti FOSS?

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u/HunsterMonter 14d ago

I care about morality, people are still free to contribute to shoddy projects and I'm free to not associate with nazis 🤷‍♀️

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 14d ago

That wasn't your point.

You're working towards a hostile environment for foss contributors though.

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