Hyprland is a relatively new name among tiling compositor offerings, but thanks to its impressive features, it is quickly becoming a popular choice among Linux users. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a brief introduction.
It is a highly customizable, dynamic, lightning-fast tiling Wayland compositor designed to provide a powerful and flexible environment for managing windows and workspaces.
It is also built with performance in mind, resulting in smooth operations, very good performance, and, last but not least, visual appeal to users.
All of these qualities, combined with its avalanche of popularity, have resulted in a well-received message on the Debian developer list, announcing that precompiled Hyprland packages are now added and available to the distribution’s unstable repositories.
Furthermore, the acceptance of Hyprland in Debian can be compared to a wide-open door to a large part of the Linux ecosystem. Being one of the foundations on which today’s Linux world is built, Debian has always been a crucial factor in promoting free software.
Adopting a given one in its repositories means it will become available to millions of users, considering the huge amount of Debian derivatives that use it as their base. It is enough to mention Ubuntu, for example.
This is why I’m too afraid to contribute to open source anymore. It’s always something. Anything you say can offend somebody now, and if you offend the wrong person, they can take the whole project down with them.
You can’t even just stick to the code, because people call that political too… “silence is violence” and whatnot.
It’s really not difficult be a decent person, and if you do make a mistake, a genuine apology is usually all you need to make things right.
People aren’t offended because Vaxry made a mistake, it’s because he doesn’t admit and apologize for his mistakes. Instead he goes out of his way to justify his behavior, the discord mod’s, and the general transphobic culture in his server.
I’m 100% certain that if Vaxry just said something like “yeah I’m sorry about what happened, we won’t tolerate transphobia in our discord server from now on” (and actively enforced that) after Drew dropped his blog post, he wouldn’t be banned from freedesktop and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
The problem is “decent” is subjective and not everyone agrees on what that means exactly. And you simply can’t reason with some people. To that end I would say it can actually be extremely difficult or impossible to get some people to conform to your own idea of what’s decent.