[CrackerNews]

There has been a consistent desire to unify the desktop environments, but the fragmentation has largely been because of differing use cases and philosophical perspectives.

This divide is being further driven on the issue of X11 vs Wayland, and now the drama of decentralized libertarianism vs centralized corporatism. The latter manifests itself as a culture war over the code of conduct or woke software. Now it is coalescing into a political line between hyprland & X11 and GNOME & Wayland. (hyprland uses Wayland, but it and X11 have a similar political affinity by loud and divisive proponents.)

The woke have an affinity with centralized corporatism and want to unify freedesktop collaboration under it and ensure that there is identitarian representation, so contributors don't have to worry about petty discrimination and office politics.

The opposition have an affinity with decentralized libertarianism, and they reject identitarian politics as they want their personal freedom to do what they want even if it is not politically correct, believing that this is the best way for their ideas to flourish into better software.

I personally believe there's some merits to either side, and a fine balance has to be made. We can try to get the best parts (the best software) without the bad parts (discrimination and office politics).

[tracker1]

I'm a bit mixed on things as well... I like some of the technical solutions that are coming from the more woke organizations, but I really don't like the abuses under their Code of Conduct or war against the non-woke. Such as activists inside Gnome calling to reject funding from Framework because they're also funding Omarchy and Hyperland.

It's a bit silly, but serious all the same IMO.

[CrackerNews]

Identitarian politics can either be explicitly enforced or implicitly allowed. The woke chose the former. The opposition can do the latter but they also believe in checking identitarian interests in favor for personal freedom.

There are concerns over this escalating into fascism, but the logical extremification of ideas only muddles the waters and makes communication difficult. A pragmatic and balanced solution gets moved out of reach, and as a result, the corporate watchmen can push lighter opposition to the extreme fringes. Who then watches the watchmen?