Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:04:44 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:31:51 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man
<rotflol2@hotmail.com>
wrote in <slrn100kfa7.edd.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>:
 

On 2025-04-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
<https://www.phoronix.com/news/F43-Change-Wayland-Only-GNOME>

>
By GNOME 50 next year upstream could completely remove its X11
session support.

>
Fortunately I can choose something NOT Fedora. If they go through
with this,
adios Fedora on the laptop I never use.
>
Non-problem solved.
>

This was one of the reasons I left Fedora and went to Debian.  I had
been tired of the frequent release cycle, and some of the politics,
but the fact they would be earlier than other distros in deprecating
X11 pushed me to Debian.  Nothing against Wayland per-se, but it
breaks some X applications, and my Window Manager.
>
The "developers" today are terrible, constantly breaking everything
all the time.  How they feel it is acceptable to constantly break
peoples workflows is beyond me.  Sheer arrogance.

 
I stopped using Fedora when they were removing code from openssl for
which they claimed they weren't sure about a patent incumberance.
 
It wasn't just flags in the SRPM that disabled elliptical-curve crypto,
they actually took the code for ECC out of openssl.
 
I jumped ship to Linux Mint, and I'm much happier for it.
 

why

Because when I realized Red Hat was telling the Fedora maintainers
to remove code from openssl, that Fedora wasn't the kind of distro
I wanted to run.

I was also tired of using rpmfusion to supplement what was missing
from Fedora -- little things, like being able to play mp3's.

The closest I've gotten to Fedora since then was to boot a live
version of Nobara, which was disastrous.  Linux Mint "just works".

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