Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre

On 28/06/25 10:32 pm, Farley Flud wrote:

Are you sick of these distro bastards like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.,
etc., etc., limiting your choices and forcing things like systemd and
Wayland down your throat?
 
I don't use any distro so I am totally immune to that scourge.
 
But one GNU/Linux distro, namely Artix, which eschews the abominable
systemd, is now offering Xlibre, the new fork of X11, as an alternative
to the equally abominable Wayland.
 
Read about it here:
 
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/28/054245/x11-fork-xlibre-released-for-testing-on-systemd-free-artix-linux
 
Both systemd and Wayland are unnecessary, useless junk that are being
foisted upon GNU/Linux users by the grubbing major distros (and they
are grubbing).
 
If you can't roll your own with Gentoo/LFS, then at least liberate
yourself with Artix.
 
 
 

You roll your own init scripts, write every logical statement and
assertion customized for your hardware: *great*! Most people won't be
able to do that anyways!

You let Ubuntu or Fedora or even Red Hat write init scripts for the
innumerable hardware permutations and combinations, where they need to
write the baseline configurations that break each other, require
re-compiling the kernel to activate certain hardware functionality, or
even make configuration changes: that's a disaster in the making.

It is just simpler to use binary-blob systemd without breakage than
incompatible init scripts that need configuration out-of-the-box.