Oro [she/they]
Queer individual from southeast Texas. Helping to work on the Linux desktop - currently contributing to Flatpak and Flathub, getting familiar with GNOME.
Can find me at:
https://orowith2os.gitlab.io/ https://tech.lgbt/@orowith2os https://github.com/orowith2os/ https://gitlab.com/OroWith2Os/
Nobody is actively working on it now; the same can’t be said for Wayland. Recently, it even hit a development low of all time. The only ones working on it are the ones getting paid to work on it, and even then, only those familiar with the codebase. Looking at the history, the only major changes are for Xwayland, and aren’t at all often.
If (almost) all of the developers have abandoned something in favor of a newer piece of software that does the job better, I think it’s sufficient to say that it’s deprecated and unmaintained.
Note what I mentioned in the blog post: most will probably be fine with advertisements so long as they aren’t annoying.
You don’t get to act the victim when you actively hurt the UX by having avertisements that get all up in your face and want to eek out every single penny like we’re slaves.
The whole idea of expressions is very nice, and I can’t imagine using ternary expressions anywhere after learning Rust.
Also implicit returns ❤️
Coming from someone with an unstable source of income, and that can just barely get by: I’ll take advertisements over a subscription/donation based model. Just don’t flood your website with them. Or use shitty ad services. And don’t make it an unusable experience cough britannica cough
Ironic how he chose an X in a strikingly similar style to the (old, unmaintained, and deprecated) Xorg. That was certainly a choice of all time.