Re: Another XLibre and/or Wayland subthread

On 27/07/2026 22:47, Farley Flud wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2026 21:22:16 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> Also, faithfully following the latest fashion trends, they eschew
> the standard configuration files in favor of CSS markup.  Modifying
> a simple font or color now requires a weeks-long odyssey of exploration.
> 

> 
> 
> But it's not only GTK+ and Qt but also the plethora of other other
> graphical toolkits, such as Xforms, Fltk, Motif, Tk, etc., that
> will suffer with the enforced demise of X11.
> 
Thank fuck for that.
90s cruft, all off it.
The fact that they all exist shows that X was never a solution by itself

> With one fell stroke IBM/RedHat will have destroyed all alternatives
> and forced everyone into its cattle pen.
> 
Yes. There will be nothing left to get religious about, will there?

> But the lackeys on this NG won't ever notice.  All that they
> can muster is the installation of Ubuntu/Mint and then play
> their frivolous games.  They are not savvy USERS; they are tawdry
> MOOCHERS.
And proud to be so.

> 
> GNU/Linux is for true *users*, i.e. people that study and modify
> the FOSS software to suit their own needs.
> 
Ah, the true zealot

> In a few years, my predictions will have proved true, but the
> morons on this NG will not have the mental capacity to ever notice.
> 
No, we will be dead.

> Corporations love stupid sheep.
> 
Twas ever thus..

> 

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