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Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence
Date	2024-10-09 18:10 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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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)
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-07 18:15 -0400
    Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-07 18:33 -0400
  Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-07 18:33 -0400
  Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-07 19:23 -0400
  Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2024-10-07 22:09 -0400
    Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-10-08 02:51 +0000
      Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-10-08 19:02 +0000
        Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-08 15:04 -0400
  Larry's incompetence (was: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-10-08 03:01 +0000
    Re: Larry's incompetence (was: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes) candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-08 19:40 +0000
      Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence tom <tom@invalid.tld> - 2024-10-08 18:54 -0500
        Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-10-09 10:51 +0000
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-10-09 13:07 +0000
            Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-09 16:23 -0400
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2024-10-09 10:13 -0400
            Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-10-09 14:43 +0000
              Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2024-10-09 14:05 -0400
                Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-09 16:07 -0400
              Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-10-09 22:07 +0200
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-10-09 22:03 +0200
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence tom <tom@invalid.tld> - 2024-10-09 16:40 -0500
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2024-10-10 01:12 +0000
        Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-09 18:10 +0000
          Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-09 16:27 -0400
            Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-10 18:10 +0000

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