Apparently leadership at Praetorian Guard Security Services

“Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military. He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, the world’s largest food company based in Switzerland and the world’s largest convenience retailer based in Japan.”

“Vance has focused all this experience to make sure Praetorian Guard Security Services covers the needs you have to keep your family and property safe.” https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team

Probably because they wouldn’t have bothered use forged credentials and a lookalike cop car? In any case the shooter has been identified as Lance Boelter (still at large) and apparently is actually not a cop. He was a Walz reappointee a government Workforce development committee until 2023, but supposedly now is an employee of a private security firm.

Things have changed in the last year or so. This is about the next releases of distros, nobody’s going to go back and retrospectively remove X11 and Xwayland will continue to exist when needed.

All the hubbub is because Gnome recently decided to drop support for launching X11 sessions from the login manager. Gnome’s login manager is Wayland based and Wayland handles handing off graphics to different users properly. With X11 you have to have ugly things like killing the login X server and then spawning a new X server as the new user among other things is ugly and unfixable without serious security issues.

Wayland wasn’t stuck with design decisions that made sense almost 50 years ago in the '80s and does things far more sanely and with less complex code.

Anyway at some point someone has to pull the plug and Gnome has done that. Many distros are built on Gnome so that’s that.

You are correct but don’t forget that somebody’s swing app broke and they’re real salty about it.

Also I can’t speak for whatever you’re worried about but when I moved to Wayland the only thing that broke was java shit like Matlab and those closed software companies are not going to fix their shit for Wayland unless they have to. Oracle certainly isn’t going to do shit unless forced. It’s not open source anything holding anything back.

Can we just let X11 die with some dignity? I don’t know who this guy on the video is? Is he important? My impression is he seems like a generic popcorn feeder.

Go fork X11 or whatever, nobody is stopping you! Feel free to try and solve the puzzle of making X11 not suck while subject to the constraints of having to satisfy specifically those users who will not allow you to make any changes that inconvenience their rickety 40yo software that nobody cares enough to update to fix whatever is keeping it from running in Wayland (pro tip we’re not talking about open source software here, the things that break are closed source blobs). It’s well worth the effort rather than spinning up a container or kvm to run that proprietary binary.