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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:10:06 -0000 (UTC)
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tom <tom@invalid.tld> wrote at 23:54 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:40:04 -0000 (UTC)
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>
>> Good to know, thanks. If only the monitor id's would stop changing..
> I've been switching to FreeBSD for most of my computers (laptop and
> servers) because of the systemd assumption debacle and updates bring
> frivolous changes for the sake of change that break things.
>
> If these sorts of things upset you that much (which is reasonable);
> perhaps consider stop using software that has too much redhat
> influence. Gnome stuff being funded by redhat, not just systemd. If you
> follow the money on a lot of the stuff that has been plaguing the Linux
> ecosystem these last couple of years you'll find in a lot of cases it
> pointing back to redhat.
>
> Part of the problem (and feature) of the Linux ecosystem is that every
> system component is made by a completely different person/team/company
> with different, often conflicting design goals.
>
> You can get away from the FreeDesktop stuff by stop using desktop
> environments and learn how to configure a compact window manager that
> doesn't rely on FreeDesktop stuff. Things like suckless's DWM is fairly
> capable and written in less then 2000 lines of C. You can modify it
> yourself to add keybindings for things like media buttons and whatnot
> without relying on freedesktop.
>
> Bottom line is, you can get X11/*nix from places other then Linux
> nowadays.


I don't think its a FreeDesktop issue. Xrandr keeps reporting slightly
different names for my monitors and it breaks my scripts. 
Like, it keeps switching between eDP-1 and eDP1 (without a dash)
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