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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by pndy on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:22PM (#47462181)
Paint me crazy but for last ~10 years I'm having this weird feeling that FOSS embraces corporate-style of management, development for projects too much. The ethos of having a choices is slowly and steadily being replaced by "comply, adapt or begone" tactic. And if you try to voice your opinion or heavens forbid - criticize, you are committing a crime against the coding humanity.

The changes are being done by small steps and I'd say this removal of fallback to X11 option counts as such.

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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by ajnin on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:58PM (#47462490)
It definitely feels like there's a dedicated core of people insisting on removing choice from the Linux ecosystem. RedHat, Gnome, fredesktop.org ... they have an ideology and a strategy to make it dominant in the Linux world and it does not feel nice to many people.
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