CW: Transphobia, ableism, misgendering
I've posted a video from Nicco Loves Linux covering the whole situation to the libre community here for context.
TL;DR: Vaxry, the lead developer of the popular Hyprland wayland compositor and tiling window manager has been banned from ever contributing a patch to freedesktop, a highly influential software group that is responsible for the modern Linux Desktop. This was due to him violating freedesktop's code of conduct because of his toxic discord community and crypto-fash blog. Vaxry then writes two screeds and throws a public temper tantrum, leading to inevitable clash when his nazi friends harass the freedesktop people.
(EDIT: Removed direct links to blog, the entire blog is pretty reactionary outside of the purely software related posts) The blog posts that got them banned:
Fun screenshot
: "I'M NOT MAD I'M NOT MAD"
Critical support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and their never-ending crusade to destroy white people 
Lot of transphobes out tonight. Keep showing yourselves, my b& hammer was getting rusty.
What if instead of a leftist woman banning me for being a neonazi it was a young leftist woman getting banned by a Christian org?
You mean... Something that happened every single day for the last 1000 years, and we had no recourse or any platform from which to complain about it? And instead of asking us to not submit code, they tortured us to death for it?
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
I just love it when Vaxry's gotcha moment is when he accepts a merge request from a trans contributor to prove he's not transphobic, never questioning why a trans person in his community would feel unsafe doing so.
All the comments saying he's a little bitty baby and he doesn't know any better can go to the
And, like, we wouldn't be contributing the Christian org in the first place. People join projects that accept them... exclusionary projects don't take off in the first place, or else don't last long.
By the way I'm infinitely grateful for hexbear being such a great site to be trans in. Every single other thread about this topic has some chud whining about muh free speech and making up conspiracies.
As a cis man, I've found hexbear to be an incredible resource on how to be a better ally to a close relative who is trans.
As someone who's been exclusively Linux-at-home for about a quarter-century, I am constantly disappointed in the chuds who infest the various subcultures in the broader Linux community. Trying to explain basic fucking empathy to these people is an uphill battle. Honestly it's made me leery of contributing code to established projects. Instead I just do small from-scratch projects for myself. At least then I know the project founder isn't a bigot.
Obligatory fuck varxy. It's easier to switch to Sway than to get help on the Hypeland discord.
How can someone be a big contributor to a FOSS project and use discord at the same time?
terminally online ones who put their self worth in terms of the number of commits they put out each day. Vaxry somehow hates socializing with people but also craves all the attention he receives for working on Hyprland.
I've had the misfortune of compiling hyprland and then running it only to be jumpscared by uwu anime girl mascot while my friend was watching after I had told them how cool Linux was.
There was a bug for a while where it would randomly show the girl when fulldcreening windows. Totally a needed feature.
idk, being able to download some software, compile it yourself, point at it and say "ah, this was made by a fascist" and then use something different, hits in a way on linux that windows and mac just can't offer.
Lemmy.ml does this shit too lol
Petition to launch techbros into the sun
Trans software devs should be allowed to, like, kill the cis ones.
r/linux and having a complete meltdown at just like the concept of a code of conduct
name a better duo
My favorite part of this saga is the chud dev trying to pass off the fact that there is no objective morality as an excuse for his behavior.
r/Linux when you don't use le based difficult distributions only for enlightened geniouses: 😡😡😡
r/Linux when you are either an hivdmind liberal or a cryptofash (and they're close): 🥰🥰🥰
Oh neat I just learned about how shit the hyprland guy is.
Glad I opted for swayfx instead.
Btw, there is nothing more infuriating to chuds in FOSS than forking their code and telling them to fuck off lol
They love Free Software until they don't lmao
they're such snide little removed jesus fucking christ "um mind explaining to the class why you said it's okay to bully transphobes?? but i'm not trying to start a hate campaign or anything, tee hee, but if anyone's interested and motivated to dig through a trans woman's social media for things to get mad at please be my guest." shut the fuck up and pull the trigger you worthless shithead.
Vaxry pulling up a trans person social media page on his blog to complain about her transness while also being put on blast for transphobia to subsequently being banned
I don't even mind the people who agree with Vaxry (because they are all transphobic neckbeard shitheads who have never talked to a trans person in real life) but the liberals who play the civility game and say that the trans person and the crypto-fash antisocial creep are both bad because one of them used their company email.
Never bothered with hyprland, it always seemed like one of those things chan bros would hoot and holler about for some reason while sway/swayfx works just fine…looks like my intuition wasn’t far off the mark.
Recently had the opportunity to set up a new system from basically scratch and tried a few different wayland options, assuming I'd land on hyprland since it seemed to be the most beloved, but then I finished configuring sway and realized it was basically perfect. Might try swayfx at some point but I really don't understand how hyprland got so much of a following
Hyprland has this annoying thing where they track the latest git commit of wlroots so orgs like debian and fedora can't package it.
Sticking to things like Sway and River is better in the long run since they update alongside wlroots.
I don't understand. Why is it wrong to use hyprland? The dev doesn't get any money or anything like that right.
Vaxry is synonymous with Hyprland for the most part. He has a large community who looks up to him as well as he has a very high opinion of himself (contrary to what he says). His GitHub states he is the leader.
People refusing to work with him/use his passion project might get the message of "dont be a loser bigot" through.
Or it isolates his community and quarantines it away from the non bigot infested FOSS world.
Nobody cares if you use hyprland (people will package it anyways, it's technically impressive), but in the FOSS space we can curate what software we use (down to the very kernel). Bad actors who don't respond to criticism have to face consequences somehow and refusing to use hyprland is an example of that.
I mean being banned from freedesktop has ruined a big part of his career. He will always be known as the chud debate bro who tried to bargin with social norms. Who wants to work with someone whose judgement they can't trust?
see any proof of it.
If you read Drew Devault's blog post as well as the email sent to vaxry it has the proof there. A community takes after its leaders and Vaxry has shown to be manipulative and attention seeking.
linux subreddit being pro nazi than varxys supporters.
It's the same picture.I am a layman and I'm simply trying to get educated in the topic.
The currency of the FOSS world is prestige and the respect of your peers
