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[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah?

That must explain why Xorg always crashes and burns when I don't use the correct combination of desktop environment, compositor and driver version.

Let's not ignore that Xorg doesn't and never has been working for everyone. At least default to the sane option with a future.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

User error. If X is too difficult for you to use, maybe you should try Windows.

Moving to an even more broken option isn't a good solution.