Adil Arif @adilarif@librem.one

"Wayland and X.org are both part of freedesktop. Whatever maintenance is still happening on X.org is mostly being done by people who primarily work on Wayland. There isn't some kind of holy war going on between The Wayland Developers who want to kill X.org, and The X.org Developers who believe it is great and want to keep it. They're nearly all the same people, and they all want X.org to die."

— Adam Williamson https://lwn.net/Articles/960634/

Last Friday, I attended the OpenJDK Committers' Workshop (https://openjdk.org/workshop) and I liked it. So many smart developers talking about how to make OpenJDK even better. Without knowing, it would be hard to guess who works for what company. Very different from meetings where company product marketing is always present. I love the passion the OpenJDK devs put in their work. Probably one of the reasons why Java is still so great. Cut the crap/hype and make things better.

My new favorite correction.

If you have one of the 240,000,000 PCs destined to be e-waste¹ by the superficial requirements for Windows 11, give Endless OS a try!

https://www.endlessos.org/os

Endless OS is the free, user-friendly PC OS packed with educational tools, games, self-guided learning resources, and more—and it all works offline.

It has a growing ecosystem of thousands of indie and big-name apps thanks to Flathub²

¹https://www.makeuseof.com/cant-upgrade-pc-windows-11/

²https://flathub.org/

#EndlessOS #eWaste #ReduceReuseRepairRecycle #Linux

Learning to say no is important.

Do more by doing less.

worst Joy Division cover ever

A very long-term Flathub initiative @razze and I have been working on is finally starting to ship! As of today, developers can log into Flathub and see the metadata quality ratings for their apps.

Soon we'll start rolling out curated banners for the home page, as the first part of actual app curation on Flathub! Exciting times ✨️

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/quality-moderation

Year progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 100.0%

My personal vision with all of this is to see #wayland desktop technologies not only catching up with what other OSs offer, but becoming leading players - just like what other FLOSS projects already archived (or are in the process of becoming) in their areas. I'm thinking of #mesa, #pipewire, #gstreamer, #systemd, the kernel of course, and many others.

Here is my latest blog post outlining some of the work we did leading up to Fedora Workstation 39, but also covering some future developments! Hope you enjoy.
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2023/11/29/fedora-workstation-39-and-beyond/

#linux #fedora #pipewire #toolbx #desktop

This weekend, you can upgrade your laptop, desktop, or server with #Fedora #Linux with incredible discounts of 100% off the normally free sticker price! Quick, snag your discount and download it today for you and a loved one!

https://fedoraproject.org/

I'm starting to prototype my new architecture for #GNOME #accessibility today. I blogged about this roughly a month ago: https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

Most plastic goes into landfills — or worse, into the environment. One big reason for these dismal numbers: Plastics are actually quite hard to recycle.

♻️ Solving the growing plastics waste puzzle: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2020/solving-growing-plastics-waste-puzzle?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns

#AmericaRecyclesDay
#FromTheArchives
#KnowableMagazine

In tears watching this...

Next time someone asks you: Where is the Palestinian Gandhi or Martin Luther King, please, direct them to #IzzeldinAbuelaish.

Five time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who has lost dozens of family members to Israeli strikes, yet remains a passionate advocate for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.

An Inspiration to us all:

https://youtu.be/dBhEhxly00M?si=0c22HcHk6hx4scDi

Please, #boost

#palestine #israel #gaza #war #inspiration #news #motivation