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Hyprland is now fully independent! (hyprland.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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geteilt von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/19377025

[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

In other words, Vaxry is so unwilling to compromise or learn from others that he would rather isolate his project from the broader FOSS community. That says a lot about him and the people who support him, especially since this conflict with freedesktop.org started over Vaxry condoning hateful trolling of trans people within the Hyprland community.

This is a problem for me as a Hyprland user because if I share some rice I made or make suggestions for other users, I'm leading people into a community that may be actively hateful towards them. It utterly extinguishes any enthusiasm I have for the project. I like the software but I'd rather be part of a project and a community that I can feel good and excited about. Maybe time to find a new tiling Wayland compositor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

if I share some rice I made

FYI: rice is derived from a racist pejorative term. A lot of people in the desktop theming community have stopped using it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I feel that like idiot, "ricing" is far enough removed from its roots that its fine. Thats just my opinion though

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My partner is Korean, and I asked her if she thought this was racist. She said "it is (technically), but who is getting offended by that?"

I never used the term in the first place, but if I did, I wouldn't stop saying it because I know about its past.

I'm fully convinced that anyone who is sincerely offended by that term is looking for something to be offended by.

I don't waste my time thinking about how "smooth brain" is offensive to people who literally have a smooth brain.

I don't waste my time dictating to the English; their colloquial term for a "cigarette" is inappropriate nowadays.

And I don't waste my time replying to comments on Lemmy regarding semantics.

Oh, wait...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's so ironic how many downvotes this is getting in the context of this thread.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow! Just like how I moved away from Hyprland. :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (36 children)

Fuck Hyprland, its developers, and its asshole community. Context: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I whole-heartedly agree with this one and I am genuinely not surprised about the behaviour of Vaxry.

To give some context around this, ThatOneCalculator (aka Kainoa, the person behind Firefish) and I maintained the AUR package for hyprland-git back in 2022. When I initially made the AUR package file, it wasn't great (and there were a lot of points to improve these packages) but it worked mostly. Of course there were edge cases where building broke, especially this was my first bigger AUR package to maintain. With it being a -git package in the AUR, breakage is to be expected.

Fast forward about a month, a month and a half. Hyprland rolled out some big changes which caused some build errors. But because my personal life got in the way, Kainoa got sick (IIRC) and I had troubles getting the build scripts working again, so it took a few days to get this resolved.

Vaxry came complaining to comment section of the AUR package "when are you gonna get of your lazy ass and fix this shit" (or something similar to that meaning, I can't find the original comment anymore). After that, I promptly disowned the package and let Vaxry handle it himself.

Because fuck that shit, as package maintainer, I refused to be treated like this. If you think it takes too long, sure, fine, ask if I need help, offer support, anything. But just don't be an asshole towards people, that offer your software to a wider audience.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The bread and butter for anyone wanting a TLDR:

The FDO team is right that Hyprland’s community reflects poorly on the Linux desktop community as a whole. Vaxry [the Hyprland Dev] has created a foothold for hate, transphobia, homophobia, bullying, and harassment in the Linux desktop community. We are right to take action to correct this problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And on that note, I condemn in the harshest terms the response from communities like /r/linux on the subject. The vile harassment and hate directed at the FDO officer in question is obscene and completely unjustifiable. I don’t care what window manager or desktop environment you use – this kind of behavior is completely uncalled for. I expect better.

Oh wow. That community is just hateful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And now in the r/linux thread about these news people are defending Vaxry, misrepresenting what the ban was about, and hating FDO.

Indicatively, this blatantly wrong comment chain is upvoted:

Is this the project where some red Hat dev started dropping legal threats from their corporate account over offline activities by third parties in unrelated communities years past?

Sort of. You got some details wrong but essentially, yes.

But this is downvoted and has replies telling them they're wrong:

Congratulations to the hyprland project, but I definitely will not be using or contributing to the project as long as it's an exclusionary and intolerant space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Damn. I only discovered this project a few weeks ago and just started building a config.

Time to yay -Rcs hyprland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Damn, had no idea about this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Vaxry (head honcho of hyprland) responds here to Drew's referenced shoutout. Sharing for completeness sake. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

And his response to the FreeDesktop stuff. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well I was going to try Hyprland this weekend, but I think instead I will very much not do that.

I hope someone forks it from a good commit just before they replaced wlroots. I don’t know the specifics of compositor code at all, but I bet It’s going to cost them quite a bit of velocity to maintain their replacement.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Watching the discussion here I finally get how it feels like to be a centrist. And it feels dirty.

Anyway, good for them, or whatever. Hyprland was a'ight when I tested it, even if it ain't my thing. Still hoping for a Wayland Compositor that gives an XFCE-type experience (that is to say, UX without Gnome's 'opinionated' weirdness, and without all the fancy effects that Plasma has. Relatively lighter, also looks a bit retro)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does this have something to do with the author being banned from freedesktop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Partially, it also had strong technical motivations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i don't have any stake in this, i'm a fucking xfce user lmao, but man "hyprland" is not a very great name since it immediately makes me think it's a crypto bullshit project..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

For everyone shitting about Vaxry, I recommend reading both sides of the equation, not only FDO/Drew's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Reading his side of it only made me dislike him him more...

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