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On 2023-09-23, Nux Vomica <nv@linux.rocks> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:56:45 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:

What about Slackware?
They refused almost all of Poetterings stuff.

There are still several alternatives but in the future
it will become more and more difficult for any distro
to reject the "modernization."

For example, until quite recently I was using static device
nodes because they are the simplest and most efficient way
to set up devices. But then freedesktop.org (which is part
of the IBM/Poettering crowd) suddenly introduced "libinput"
as the one-and-only way to interface with input devices
under X/Wayland. Libinput REQUIRES udev. No exceptions.

What should have happened was that libinput be offered
as merely an alternative to the "legacy" input drivers.
But no, the legacy drivers were utterly abandoned and
now libinput is the ONLY way to access keyboards, pointing
devices, etc.

This is how systemd will slowly become entrenched and destroy
all alternatives.

But now we can cue all the RedHat/IBM/Microsoft/Poettering
apologists to testify about the wonderful and innovative
libinput.

In practice, libinput is garbage. With every update mouse
scrolling stops under GTK+3. I need to modify the
"Send Events Mode Enabled" property and this property
keeps jumping around in number:

xinput --list-props 7

...
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (269): 0, 0
...

It's all weird, useless crap. The legacy drivers never
caused any issues whatsoever.

Most Linux users, however, have their heads totally up their
asses and won't be able to perceive the infestation.

Check Hyperbola GNU/Linux, soon it will be rebased into BSD but with
FSF compatible licenses.
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