A software project started in 1984, widely used in hundreds of OSes for four decades, with a distinctive X as it’s logo and an equally distinct URL 🙄
Not to be confused with the shitshow social media network.
Remember Meta, the original thing before Facebook illegally took it as its own with zero consequences? Yeah, me neither.
It’s also impossible to find info on that now since every query involving “meta” and “facebook” gives only results about the current company.
Where can I read more about this?
Snowcrash book for “metaverse”
Heh. reddit.
how is it illegal? not to defend Facebook, just genuinely interested
Oh, i’m embellishing. It was only illegal from a moral perspective far as i read back when it was news. Their legal team did their money’s worth and exploited the many existing legal loopholes to either take over or buyout the ownership quietly. Haven’t seen the former self-presented owners since the event in question, so either it was a scam or they were paid a lot to keep quiet. Or threatened. Regardless, it was a big hubbub when the Meta thing was revealed and then there was silence.
that’s so meta
Originally called the “X Window System”, colloquially “X-Windows”.
(all of this happened long before M$-Windows)
It was a bad name back when this project was created, and it’s a bad name now.
Bet Elon will sue tf outta this /s
What is with the “/s”?
He literally will try to sue once someone tells him about it(because he is a “programmer” that basically doesn’t know what linux is and thinks open source means he can take it).
Meanwhile me who uses Wayland and only has the absolute necessary packages installed to make Xwayland work.
I’ve experienced it twice that my Ubuntu system uninstalled xwayland while updating packages. The UI doesn’t start any more in this case, because the login screen still uses it.
That’s rough buddy
Wait
Ubuntu uses GNOME. Xwayland is one of GNOME’s dependencies. meaning apt bricked your GNOME for no apperent reason???
Though if your dm breaks, you should still be able to log into a TTY and start your desktop manually. This is what I do for my Hyprland install, since I don’t see a reason to use a dm personally.
I’m using Hyprland as well, but I didn’t intentionally uninstall anything from Gnome. I don’t know how it happens.
Knock knock, open up the door, it’s real
With the non-stop, pop pop of stainless steelX gon give it to ya
Fuck waitin’ for you to get it on your own,
X gon’ deliver to yaAnd writing that I just realized he could pay DMX for rights to the song for an ad to replace Doordash :(
All this X talk remind me of XTree Gold. I have not thought about that SW for a long time and I used it a lot in the nineties.
Ah the good old days. Loved the software!
Ah the good old days. Loved the software!
Ah, the motif window manager was so cool!
Removed by mod
I use X11/Xorg every day. It may not be the most modern thing ever, but it has absolutely every feature I want, and doesn’t have random apps like Synergy (sorry) that say “This app is not supported in Wayland”
This is it, lads! At least, the YEAR OF THE LI—
…oh.
And startx is still a template you’re strongly encouraged to replace with something better.
Btw, there’s https://github.com/Earnestly/sx
Go on… 😄
OK?
This is a jab at Muskrat and his rebranding of the birdshite, I mean site, to X…
Someone must have suggested the x.org logo as a trolling moment, and he bit. Amazing!
The X.org logo is cut in half and also has an ellipse around it.
It doesn’t matter from his point of view even if it were identical. He probably doesn’t care if he has to stumble through mistakes as long as he gets where he wants to eventually, and he probably loves the attention in-between.
