Bitching doesn't preclude him from contributing. Plenty of people with strong opinions and things to "whine" about are also big contributors. Myself I bitch a ton but I'm also involved in many FOSS projects. The two are definitely not mutually exclusive. While I'm only about 80% overlapping with his specific points of contention, the spirit of what he's saying is correct. Fedora is a poop chute straight into the core of Linux and it's been the primary mechanism/conduit for it's anti-UNIX-way drift.

They did (what else would Wayland devs say?), but plenty of unmerged patches on Freedesktop.org say they didn't just express their opinion in a vacuum. Others were trying to fix and update XOrg and were being stymied and blocked by Red Hat / IBM Employees who control the Freedesktop.org governance structure and police the Code of Conduct. The X11Libre project was a reaction to that overt political power grab after Red Hat employees rejected over 140 patches and merge requests for Xorg and Freedesktop components. They wanted Xorg to die (they even said so straight out) and didn't appreciate folks like Weigelt trying to fix or update it.

Unreliable, unstable, and lacks several important and not-at-all-obsolete features they simply claim to be obsolete. Well, guys, simply claiming isn't really gonna cut it. However, alternatively, the commits in Wayland related projects are about 3x that of X11Libre RN. Wayland bits and pieces (wlroots, mutter, etc..) now pack in more LoC. Newer features like HDR support are mostly concentrating on Wayland and the Wayland folks are getting less shit-stupid/strident with their anti-XDMCP stance and putting some work into the X11 compatibility service.

There aren't a ton of measurements I've seen, but from what I can tell, many features are simply missing. I'm not sure one could even *do* fair 1:1 comparisons. However, I think as newer cards land Wayland support faster than X11, the performance edge start tilting toward Wayland overall.

It did. It also took a lot of very nasty politics and shitty behavior by Red Hat and IBM using a Code of Conduct to lock out Weigelt over his political views (he's a vaccine skeptic). Would have been nice to let him continue to fix and update Freedesktop and Xorg components without the "We want this to die so stop working on it!" stance or the "we want to censor your politics so we won't let you code here" stance. Would also have been nice if Wayland evangelists didn't go around judging/trashing people's opinions about XDMCP and what's useful to them "If you want XDMCP you're stupid and you should fuck off, troglodyte" was 2015. 2026 should be "Hey, we're almost done with XDMCP support and it'll be a pleasure to complete that important feature and keep it maintained."

Ahh.... not really. He crushed your assertions with a well-reasoned post about his personal situation. You didn't do anything to refute a single point. He mentioned having no place to charge, expensive EV motorcycles with shitty range, car dependency in a real area with fewer options, a desire for EVs they don't really make (reasonable priced coupe), and didn't even hit you with "99% of them have DRM'd batteries only the vendor can replace at HUGE cost to the owner", and the only thing you did was just put on your normal smug "Everything you said proves my point" nonsensical response. Hint: nothing he said proves anything you wanted proven. Not even close. It's clear environmentalism is a religion to you, not reality that has to be proved and debated to stand up to real world arguments and situations. It's no wonder that negatively impacts your ability to reason, think critically, or engage with uncomfortable facts.

So you bash the "culture war" but open up with partisan slander and worn-out culture war talking points? How extremely disingenuous.

You're doing exactly what the powerful want: fighting sideways instead of looking up. You intake so much media that they have you convinced it's "the other guys" that are "the problem". It's not. It's the powerful elite who control the media and use it to marionette people like you into wasting your energy so they can enjoy the status quo and gain even more power.

You might be right, but I'd bet it's angry censors who lost their allies at the biggest public forum.

It's the same butthurt censors who lost their power when Pajeet Agrawal and 1000 censor-trash-waste-of-money employees were fired. You're not a troll, you're right.

Irving Fischer argued that. He's probably the dumbest economist in history and got just about everything about the Depression wrong (but his shittake is now standard). I wouldn't go with any assertion by that consummate idiot.

I've worked with approximately 100 H1B folks in different roles in different organizations (my resume is a who's who of large American IT companies). I've worked with exactly three that were "good" and I'd re-hire over your average American. This is just more corporate treachery. I wish the worst on Microsoft and nothing has changed about that since the 1980's. As for India, I'm game to aspirate a bit of fallout if they wanna go ahead and settle things with Pakistan. Of course, IT will just move operations to Romania or the next English-speaking shithole.

The placard at the bottom says “Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.”

Children are subject to the rules of their parents house and the institutions they are forced to attend. There isn't much way around that. So, it's not really a legal-freedoms argument right now unless you think the current interpretation of the law is completely 180' wrong/backwards. Schools can shut down phone-privileges at-will.

Having said that, I don't believe you for one second. You were a complete little authoritarian bitch during CV19 and seemed to favor every draconian action. You're also a fucking fool and nearly always argue from the stupidest possible political viewpoint with some of the weakest reasoning the world has ever known. I doubt there is any government power you wouldn't be an apologist for. You've always been an anti-white racist and I seriously doubt there is any government lockdown, "program", or shit-stupid rule you wouldn't be 100% behind, because you always have been. That goes for the vast majority of the rest of you cocksuckers here on Slashdot, too. I'm just going to stop by as your articles get 5-15 comments and try to half-jokingly help you out buy rubbing shit in your face and reminding you what a bunch of shitheads you've become and how you are about 15-minutes away from "404 not found". Just know I'll be popping a bottle on that day and NOT pouring one out for you.

Since you're going to dump some negative mod points, let me also say: FUCK YOU PEOPLE. There, at least now when you moderate this as a troll I can give you credit for not being utterly full of shit as per your usual moderation.

Palm Inc, Be Inc, HP-UX is done in December, SGI Inc, 3COM, US Robotics, Itanium, Superdome, etc... HP/HPE is a graveyard for technology.

Just like to point out folks dumping negative karma on this thread because they are pissed about having their noses rubbed in it on other threads. Yet another channel for mod-abuse on /.

Yeah, you sound perfectly rational and calm, lol. I'm sure when you say "No scientist ever said that" then I quote one for you who happens to be the head of the CDC you're perfectly sanguine about accepting the L and backing down from your stupidity... oh, wait...

This is like anything involving cryptography. It's fiddly, easy to screw up, failure prone, and usually also hard to understand just for funsies. If even the hotshot cryptographers cant keep from screwing it up, maybe voting on plain old paper ain't so bad, eh? I like the simplicity of replying to "We don't believe the result." with "Okay, there's the ballots. You count them."

Solar Winds monitoring suite was always such a darling and favorite among Windows sysadmins. I remember writing a few custom shell scripts for it's Linux agent years ago. I must admit to a bit of schadenfreude after they stumbled with the security nightmares for a while. However, the stuff I'm seeing now is even worse and more horrifying than anything SolarWinds ever released. After "AI Agents" become the norm, I have a feeling I'll look back on Solarwinds fondly.