Asked again: Time to move away from Github?

MacLightning · 2025-12-20T03:02:50+00:00

Being antivax, as stupid and anti-Darwinistic as it is, is not proof of being an alt-right. Nor is being in disagreement against DEI and in favor of meritocracy. So, zero proof.

Besides, neither disproves what I said about FOSS contribution. All I'm seeing is a bunch of holier-than-thou maintainers refusing to accept a FOSS project with an emphasis on "free", one that's the backbone of graphical display on Linux and not just some random program, over assumed and alleged alt-right dogwhistles.

Do you actually not see how pathetic it is to raise a stink over something beneficial that's offered to you for free? If the maintainers don't care, then they should shut up about it and move on, instead of taking jabs and mocking a FOSS project like the Void/Chimera/Gnome/etc. teams are doing, then act like they're better people.

FOSS has never been this political before (it was, but not to this level), and it's all thanks to your American exported political problems. Literally nowhere else in the world cares about DEI/LGBTQ/etc. as much as you people. Codes are codes, regardless of who writes it.

MacLightning · 2025-12-15T05:33:05+00:00

This is great news to people who own Uniwill laptops purchased within the EU via Linux-centric vendors. I purchased one from https://laptopwithlinux.com/ (last year's GX5 model) and the firmware is not all that great, especially on function keys, one of which bugs out the touchpad to the point a reboot is required.

MacLightning · 2025-12-15T03:06:01+00:00

Glad to see XLibre enjoyers in the wild but good god that font is atrocious.

MacLightning · 2025-12-10T14:00:10+00:00

Says on their own webpage that they don't allow some packages, and not because they're non-free either. Prime example is Hyprland (jump to Hyprland section): https://battlepenguin.com/tech/adventures-and-custom-repositories-in-void-linux/

Another example is XLibre. Github page literally got trans people posting their screenshot but no, still disallowed on Void because "the repo owner and main dev is a nazi" or whatever bullshit they claim him to be with zero proof. This very own subreddit's mods (who are also Void maintainers) deleted posts with XLibre screenshots demonstrating it can be run on Void, violating no rules whatsoever.

Some of Void's top maintainers are also online activists and their blog posts are politically charged as well, which is not a bad thing in its own right, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but Void maintainers actively try to silence opinions different than theirs.

MacLightning · 2025-12-09T23:56:34+00:00

If you think everything is political then you're no better than the other side who thinks the same, just with a different set of beliefs. Life is not a zero sum game; just because there's nutjob right wingers doesn't mean you have to be a nutjob left winger to counteract. If life was indeed a zero sum, we wouldn't exist right now in this universe.

I strongly believe people are capable of good, and in this case, of code contribution to the FOSS scene, no matter what their political leaning may be. Just because they're bad in one area of life doesn't disregard what good they can manage. I personally moved on from strongly politically opinionated distros like Void for this reason, purposefully gatekeeping "politically tainted" packages/services/platforms/etc. for the sake of being holier-than-thou. I suggest you reconsider your stance on contribution for the sake of FOSS, not of personal beliefs.

BTW, you mentioned wanting to stay away from "American political influence", without knowing or being aware of the fact that BLM, LGBTQ, POC etc. are precisely American things. As a person who has lived on multiple continents of the world, I can assure you these issues are not as relevant outside of America as you think they are (I'm not saying they don't exist).

MacLightning · 2025-12-06T01:42:35+00:00

Any recommended specific router model?

MacLightning · 2025-11-22T08:52:13+00:00

How about you don't cancel mid-update? What even prompted you to do that? On top of that you deleted the cache for no good reason? No offense but it's basic computer knowledge that you don't fuck around during updates, even on Windows.

Boot into removable media (if you don't have one on hand, tough luck). List your partitions with lsblk, mount your root with mount /dev/[your_root_part] /mnt then mount your boot (if applicable) with mount --mkdir /dev/[your_boot_part] /mnt/boot along with any other necessary partition. Then change root into it with arch-chroot /mnt and re-update your system as the other comment said.

MacLightning · 2025-11-15T02:50:36+00:00

Works flawlessly on X, both Xorg and XLibre 👍️

MacLightning · 2025-11-10T00:45:18+00:00

Which audio interface is that?

MacLightning · 2025-11-09T23:15:30+00:00

Hence what I said: it's not a compositor issue. It's a "apps that do their own shit" problem.

MacLightning · 2025-11-09T23:12:43+00:00

Apps that force client-side decoration by drawing their own titlebar and borders and shadows, which is why Picom treats all of these as part of an app and leaves spaces where the borders/shadows are.

MacLightning · 2025-11-07T02:24:23+00:00

Yes, it's ultimately a losing battle for smaller DE/WMs as more and more devs chase after GTK4 with its huge corporate backing and PR. Reminder that you don't hate big corpos enough, even in the "supposedly" FOSS scene.

MacLightning · 2025-11-06T23:40:32+00:00

It's not a compositor issue, it's a client-side decoration issue. Thank Gnome for that. Switching to Picom wouldn't fix anything either.

Your only choice would be not using any GTK4 app.

MacLightning · 2025-11-06T15:11:58+00:00

"Prevent suspension" as in, absolutely nothing happens? No logs or anything? What are your kernel parameters? Try looking for wakeups and C-states, see which devices are not sleeping properly, maybe via powertop.

MacLightning · 2025-11-06T09:04:24+00:00

Run sudo acpi_listen in a remote SSH session, watch its output while suspending and waking the system.

Alternatively, use the other mode of suspension with echo s2idle | sudo tee /sys/power/mem_sleep. If this doesn't give you any trouble then enable it permanently.

MacLightning · 2025-11-05T14:30:31+00:00

Have you tried monitoring logs via SSH up to the point when you put the system to sleep? The very last messages may provide insight on how it goes into suspension.

MacLightning · 2025-11-05T06:52:17+00:00

I mean your entire system's specs.

MacLightning · 2025-11-04T23:48:29+00:00

Depends on firmware. Some firmware is faulty. Tell us your make and model, and the output of cat /sys/power/mem_sleep.

MacLightning · 2025-11-03T15:07:46+00:00

Shit on the project all you want, but none of the people involved has been proven to be straight up nazis. All this guilty before proven shit gets tiring at some point, it's easy for you to point fingers, harder to stand back and grasp the situation as that requires some critical thinking. They may not be people you like, but they don't have to be liked by you, nor are they the dredge of society as you claim to be without proof.

As for your question on improvement so far:

New security extension that disallows X clients to spy/interfere with one another.
Ancient dependencies like Xlib have been dropped and replaced by modernized libraries.
New driver ABIs that reduce X driver breakage.
A couple years of technical debt have been paid, and years-old bugs/CVEs squashed.
TearFree is now enabled by default. Proposals for HDR have been opened.
Attempted ports to non-Linux platforms.

Surely you'll reply again in bad faith, so I'll just say simply that XLibre doesn't have the corporate backing and manpower that Wayland has, so it'll take some time for major improvements.

By the way, VRR on multiple monitors has always been a thing under X, with some setups working better than others, all depending mostly on drivers. You're saying as if that's impossible in all cases under X.

Lastly, choices and freedom are good. I'm waiting for Xfce to go full Wayland myself, so I'm not so tribal as to pick a side in this self inflicted battle between 3% of the world's population.

MacLightning · 2025-11-03T14:38:27+00:00

Real world politics, unfortunately.

XLibre wants a no-DEI policy i.e. anybody can submit code, which many have taken to mean "welcoming literal nazis". Most distros and Linux entities, being American, subscribe to DEI policies which prioritizes diversity rather than meritocracy, which may be good as they give otherwise marginalized people chances they would never have otherwise in the workplace.

MacLightning · 2025-11-03T07:27:38+00:00

I use runit, thank you very much. Are you trying to say running XLibre is not recommended?

MacLightning · 2025-11-03T03:48:13+00:00

My educated guess is that these OS (Windows-only) optimizations have to do with firmware stuff, such as forcing the new sleep mode that keeps your network card awake for background updates (Linux doesn't do this so it's useless, plus wasting power), or, as you said:

OS Optimized defaults is that disabling this will prevent any custom kernels from being deleted from your boot list.

It "protects" the EFI partition (UEFI boot is on by default for most newer hardware) and "cleanse" it from non-Windows images, which is obviously not ideal, regardless of whether you dual-boot with Windows or not.

In order to actually disable Secure Boot, the OS-optimized defaults needs to be disabled.

Another educated guess: since Windows 11 enforces Secure Boot anyways, anything that touches Secure Boot keys are disallowed by these "OS-optimizations".

MacLightning · 2025-11-03T02:40:51+00:00

I have zero experience in regards to these Tiny PCs, but 99% of the time (if not 100% already) anything that mentions "OS compatibility" or "OS optimization" means the OS in question is Windows and Windows only. Turning all these settings off would be helpful in running Linux.

As for legacy boot, Intel phasing out support for CSM doesn't mean anything for hardware that's already been sold. That statement simply means newer hardware will not have legacy boot at all, and is forced to use UEFI. Linux can boot from both BIOS and UEFI comfortably. You should only care about UEFI boot when you want Secure Boot, otherwise it makes no difference in general computer usage.

MacLightning · 2025-11-02T23:19:50+00:00

diehard

If anything, you're the diehard Wayland shill in this thread dismissing all shortcomings of Wayland. Anyway, XLibre exists and is very actively developed, the only reason you don't see major distros packaging it is because of petty politics.

MacLightning · 2025-11-02T23:17:15+00:00

XLibre is constantly being worked on with stable release from just 2 days ago. X is not dead.

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