On 10/4/25 8:32 PM, Aaron Johnson wrote:
From a technical perspective, XLibre appears to offer several
contributions:
- Long-term support for X server as legacy X implementations lose
maintenance
- Continued security patches for X11-dependent environments
- Maintained compatibility for proprietary drivers where Wayland support
remains incomplete
Can we stop the charade? None of this is true. The maintainer got their
privileges from X11 removed because they were... not a good maintainer
and randomly broke interfaces that existing software relied upon. And
even introduced security issues with some of their patches. And XLibre
broke compatibility with the one proprietary driver that actually
matters here.
Which leaves:
- Support for users who rely on remote X applications, specific window
managers, or accessibility workflows that aren't fully addressed by Wayland
No-one is currently arguing for an X11 removal. I don't see how that'd
require XLibre of all things.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
