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Just putting this here cause I found it a good overview of a pretty confusing situation I had no prior knowledge about

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who is that guy and why would he have the authority to demand a talk? From the looks of the thumbnail alone he seems to be super full of himself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

"we need to talk" is just a phrase, he's not demanding from anyone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

why do we need to drop hyprland over the lead dev's views, they are pretty bad, but its an open source project, and I joined the discord server and didn't immediately see any issues. vaxry even made a point of saying that they will accept PRs as long as they are good quality, regardless of personal views.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

It always baffles me why some people can't just fucking live and let live. If someone doesn't appreciate your "joke", then it should be a very clear indicator that you need to STFU, otherwise, it's obvious you're a dickhead.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Wow is it this hard to not be an asshole

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely love Hyprland but have no respect for Vaxry beyond his coding ability.

I really hope someone starts a good fork of it, I haven't found another wm I like as much but I hate to be seen as supporting that awful person.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's FOSS, just don't donate to the project or promote it and keep using it anyway. That's the beauty of FOSS, the devs dumb opinions shouldn't effect your personal use of quality tools. Imagine if you stopped using hammers just because "communism", it'd be a pretty stupid self inflicted inconvenience.
If the project itself goes to shit and he starts using it to push his stupid agenda, then abandon it. But until then it's completely understandable to keep using it for your personal workflow. Everyone uses GNU utilits, that doesn't mean we agree with everything Richard Stallmen has ever said.
Hopefully Vaxry will learn and clean up his act.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Alright who is in the Discord and can tell us if it's actually 4chan or not

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I am and I got muted for 6 hours for gif reacting when the gif had the soft n word in it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

4Chan is obv worse, as was said in the video, but the discord can be pretty obnoxious. Just a lot of humor you'd expect from the average middle-schooler.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've been there for like 2 weeks in 2023 and I'd say that 4chan is way worse

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