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Artix Linux discontinues XLibre support due to bugs and harassment (artixlinux.org)

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With the 2026.08 ISO release, Artix switched back to Xorg. The switch had been decided soon after the 2026.04 release, due to the unusually high amount of XLibre-related bug reports on our forum and started with our weekly ISO images. This resulted in backlash from XLibre and a veteran Artix developer, Artist, was targeted and harassed, which led to his resignation.

Those XLibre developers must be lovely people...

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 18 hours ago

Mostly, yeah.

I've never edited keyboard sequences, no idea. Same for accessibility features, really.

And every application has been implementing its own rendering for years, nobody's using X11 to draw shapes and text like its the 80s.

I'm gaming on Wayland. Performance is good. The way freesync still works with a youtube video on a second screen is nice.

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