Hyprland is a relatively new name among tiling compositor offerings, but thanks to its impressive features, it is quickly becoming a popular choice among Linux users. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a brief introduction.

It is a highly customizable, dynamic, lightning-fast tiling Wayland compositor designed to provide a powerful and flexible environment for managing windows and workspaces.

It is also built with performance in mind, resulting in smooth operations, very good performance, and, last but not least, visual appeal to users.

All of these qualities, combined with its avalanche of popularity, have resulted in a well-received message on the Debian developer list, announcing that precompiled Hyprland packages are now added and available to the distribution’s unstable repositories.

Furthermore, the acceptance of Hyprland in Debian can be compared to a wide-open door to a large part of the Linux ecosystem. Being one of the foundations on which today’s Linux world is built, Debian has always been a crucial factor in promoting free software.

Adopting a given one in its repositories means it will become available to millions of users, considering the huge amount of Debian derivatives that use it as their base. It is enough to mention Ubuntu, for example.

  • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    The lead dev thought it was no big deal that the moderators of his official discord server were going out of their way to harass trans people. Then when someone said “hey this isn’t okay” he was like “why am I to blame I didn’t do it”

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      He didn’t just wash off his hands. When asked in an interview about a moderator who edited a trans user’s profile to intentionally misgendering them (yup, even that’s not off limits for their mods), he justified it saying that ‘It’s not like using the N-word or something’. (For context, the n-word itself was innocuous. It gained notoriety due to its misuse by bigots like this).

      There are several such examples - repeatedly even after being called out. I don’t belong to any diversity groups. But I don’t care if they make the world’s best operating system. I will stay well away from it if only to avoid any interaction with such a group. They’re a bit too happy about harassing people (not just transgenders either).

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        3 months ago

        100%. I wanted to summarize things as succinctly as possible but its basically impossible to deny this person is a complete bastard

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        This is why I’m too afraid to contribute to open source anymore. It’s always something. Anything you say can offend somebody now, and if you offend the wrong person, they can take the whole project down with them.

        You can’t even just stick to the code, because people call that political too… “silence is violence” and whatnot.

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          It’s really not difficult be a decent person, and if you do make a mistake, a genuine apology is usually all you need to make things right.

          People aren’t offended because Vaxry made a mistake, it’s because he doesn’t admit and apologize for his mistakes. Instead he goes out of his way to justify his behavior, the discord mod’s, and the general transphobic culture in his server.

          I’m 100% certain that if Vaxry just said something like “yeah I’m sorry about what happened, we won’t tolerate transphobia in our discord server from now on” (and actively enforced that) after Drew dropped his blog post, he wouldn’t be banned from freedesktop and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

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            The problem is “decent” is subjective and not everyone agrees on what that means exactly. And you simply can’t reason with some people. To that end I would say it can actually be extremely difficult or impossible to get some people to conform to your own idea of what’s decent.

            Some people want to “keep politics out of things” (or whatever you prefer to define their actions/inactions as) without realizing that it’s impossible. For example someone might not even want to discuss what is or isn’t transphobia, or whether or not that should be allowed, because that itself is political to them, but NOT handling it (or deferring to moderators) might not be seen as political to them, even if others disagree. IMO nobody is “right” or “wrong”, they just have a difference in opinion.

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      Man… And this is why companies have lawyers lol

      You can’t expect a dev to understand how this shot is clown lol