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by imiric 173 days ago
What's in very bad faith is twisting the words of the people who work on these projects[1], and blaming me for echoing them.

It's very clear from their actions[2][3] that they have been actively working to "kill" X11.

There are still people willing to work on it, hence the XLibre fork. The fact that most mainstream distros refuse to carry it is another sign that X11 is in fact being actively "killed".

[1]: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161

[2]: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-...

[3]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL10-Removing-X.Org

1 comments

[1] is correct, though. You don't own Xorg, nor are you entitled to make distro maintainers support it. The Steam Deck doesn't support Xorg officially, but I don't see anyone rioting in the streets. If X11 has died, then it was a Darwinian process.
Nobody is claiming ownership over Xorg. That's ridiculous. If anything, it's the people who are deliberately trying to "kill" it. Some people simply want to keep working on it, many people still want to keep using it, yet they're being forced not to by egomaniacal children.

The job of distro maintainers is to make software accessible for their users. It's not to provide support for the software, nor to fix its bugs. Choosing to not package a specific software is user hostile.