Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes

On 10/7/2024 17:56, Farley Flud wrote:

Note: This post is for GNU/Linux experts only.  If you are just another
distro lackey then, please, fuck off.
 Today, I invoked the Pan newsreader.  It would not fucking scroll
with the mouse wheel.  What the friggin' fuck?
 Also, some other GUI programs would not scroll.
 I've had this problem before, and, sure enough, it was libinput,
a product of GNOME/Freedesktop that was the fault.
 Once again, those incompetent assholes changed their device numbers:
 xinput list-props 8
...
         libinput Send Events Modes Available (270):     1, 0
         libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (271):        0, 0
         libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (272):        0, 0
...
 They changed the "Send Events Mode Enabled" from 269 to 271.
 What the fuck for?  Only those incompetent assholes will know.
 In my X/FVWM3 boot I have to change it to:
 xinput --set-prop 8 271 1 0
 Why no fucking advanced notice?  Only those incompetent assholes will know.
 GNOME/Freedesktop are the scourge of GNU/Linux.  Those bastards are
just as bad as SYSTEMD -- and that's bad!
 But the stupified distro lackey won't even bat an eye.  These useless
creeps will just use their Ubuntu/Mint/Whatever without an inkling
into the degeneration wrought by these incompetent assholes.
   

I wouldn't call myself a GNU/Linux expert by any means, but I build my system up from source code and never use a package manager so hopefully that counts for something.
I completely understand what you mean. I tried GNOME for a while way back in the day but after a while of updates to the source causing issues, I finally had enough after 3-4 years of it. So I stopped using GNOME. I haven't touched it in a long time. Sounds like nothing has changed. I did use KDE for a bit. It's still installed on my system but I mostly CLI everything I can and only startx when I absolutely need to (which isn't very often for the work I do). A lot of their broken updates don't make since. But you know, GNOME hasn't really been known for being very organized or making good decisions. Sure, they have a lot of good features in the product, but sometimes you just have to scratch your head and say what the hell were they thinking.