Commenters debate whether modern display resolutions and refresh rates necessitate GPU offloading for transparency effects or if CPU performance should suffice, while simultaneously arguing over the viability of Wayland versus X11 and the role of GNOME/GTK in the Linux ecosystem.
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xserver
C2025–2026
X11Libre / xserver
xserver
XLibre Xserver
33Distinct people
47Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.8KGitHub stars
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XLibre Xserver
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What people are saying
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Favorable Commenters describe the x11libre/xserver fork as an active alternative to Xorg that offers features like easy restart and avoids corporate control. One user notes it is currently useful but requires more polishing and development effort.
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Commenters describe the x11libre/xserver fork as an active alternative to Xorg that offers features like easy restart and avoids corporate control. One user notes it is currently useful but requires more polishing and development effort.
Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · 1 discussions summarized
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HN mentions by month47 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-06-06 10:35:10 UTC to 2026-10-12 17:27:30 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 3 | 11 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
1 sourcesBIbitwize·Jul 9, 2025
> One would be tempted to say that perhaps they have a vested interest in making it seem like Xorg can not be fixed, even though this patch was merged in 2022, normal users still cannot use this feature in 2025.
This has passed into the "yes, it's happening, and here's why it's a good thing" phase of conspiracy-theory damage control:
https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161
The Xorg developers do not want to maintain the legacy X codebase. They do not want to perpetuate the legacy X architecture. If withholding features is what finally gets people to suck it up and switch to Wayland, if it gets app and toolkit developers and fucking NVIDIA to drop their X codepaths and put all their development effort behind Wayland, that's what they will do.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google do this all the time. They drop support for the old and
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busted and put all their effort into the new hotness. By and large, their user bases do not complain. Only Linux users are autistic enough to go "but muh 40-year-old 'network transparent' [lol, not really, watch the Daniel Stone talk again please] display server written for 8bpp framebuffers long before modern fucking GPUs emerged".
As for Xlibre... to give you an idea of how clownshoes the development community is on that thing...
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56
Not to mention being a Nazi bar. People are starting to wake up and realize what a security risk Nazi- and far-right-authored code is. Alpine already has a security exclusion on it for that reason. Other distros will follow suit.