From: anthk@disroot.org
On 2023-09-23, Nux Vomica 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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