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 one run by what’s called the most toxic community in current Linux?
Not aware of the toxicity… any starting point for this storyline?
Calling it a storyline makes it seem like you already don’t believe it.
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html
TL;DR (there should be an open source drama summarising website!):
- Hazing someone in your discord because they have pronouns in their bio
- Speaking pretty bluntly against queer people and minorities at large
- “at 15 he doesnt even know what he will be studying at uni and he already wanna go get AIDS?”
- “I think this server’s motto should be ‘love guns, hate damn minorities’”
there should be an open source drama summarising website
https://github.com/neodrama/github-drama is the closest thing I know of, but only covers things on github. lunduke usually covers a good bit of drama also. even mentioning his name on gnome forums is an instant auto-ban.
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”
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).
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.
