CW: Transphobia, ableism, misgendering
I’ve posted a video from Nicco Loves Linux covering the whole situation to the libre community here for context.
TL;DR: Vaxry, the lead developer of the popular Hyprland wayland compositor and tiling window manager has been banned from ever contributing a patch to freedesktop, a highly influential software group that is responsible for the modern Linux Desktop. This was due to him violating freedesktop’s code of conduct because of his toxic discord community and crypto-fash blog. Vaxry then writes two screeds and throws a public temper tantrum, leading to inevitable clash when his nazi friends harass the freedesktop people.
(EDIT: Removed direct links to blog, the entire blog is pretty reactionary outside of the purely software related posts) The blog posts that got them banned:
Fun screenshot
: “I’M NOT MAD I’M NOT MAD”
Critical support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and their never-ending crusade to destroy white people
I’ve had the misfortune of compiling hyprland and then running it only to be jumpscared by uwu anime girl mascot while my friend was watching after I had told them how cool Linux was.
There was a bug for a while where it would randomly show the girl when fulldcreening windows. Totally a needed feature.
idk, being able to download some software, compile it yourself, point at it and say “ah, this was made by a fascist” and then use something different, hits in a way on linux that windows and mac just can’t offer.