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by Ckirby 919 days ago
[..]"Even worse, Xorg has a mandate to never break userspace"[..]

Xorg is a major fundamental part of the "desktop" part of "Desktop Operating System

The fact that you even listed it as an "issue" with Xorg immediately disqualifies you from making any further statements on the issue

If you think that it's acceptable for a minor software update to break down potentially hundreds of not thousands of office workstations then you are quite frankly insane

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>The fact that you even listed it as an "issue" with Xorg immediately disqualifies you from making any further statements on the issue

Yep.

PSA: If you think not breaking user space is an "issue", please don't ever do anything but non-critical web development.

By itself, it's not a bad thing. When we are shipping extensions for two-button mice in C with no automated testing, fuzzing, or security review, and no mouse has used those extensions in decades, and that until recently ran as root, that's a problem.