Why I picked the name xorg-official
I mean, I do use Xorg. My main window manager has been Openbox since I switched to Linux 5 years ago. I mess with Xorg-related settings all the time. But I'm certainly not involved with Xorg in any official capacity.
Neither am I one of the hardcore anti-Wayland people. I expect to switch to Wayland eventually—but for now, I have no reason to.
And that's really a major part of my philosophy when it comes to technology.
I really don't like smartphones. Until 2022, I didn't even have one. It baffles me that on sites like Tumblr, around 90% of traffic is from the mobile app. For me, even on Tumblr, which is more suited to phone screens than most websites, my PC is a much more comfortable experience. I hate the tiny phone screen. I hate the feeling of scrolling down it with my finger. I hate how the phone decides everything for me.
And I liked my old flip phone. It took photos that weren't Instagram-quality but more than good enough for revisiting memories years later. It could text and call, and play music. It felt like a tool I controlled, rather than an agent I had to negotiate with. And that was all I really needed.
But the world made it harder and harder for me to live without a constant internet connection and mobile apps. I still could, even today, but it became too much effort to get work done, maintain friendships, and have a social life without it. I decided I couldn't afford to keep fighting.
It's always been this way with technology. I have a friend who continues to use film cameras, even though film is hard to find and airport security is unsympathetic when he tells them it can't go through a scanner. I have a friend who stuck with Windows 7 as long as he possibly could.
In short, the right to use "old" technology, "old" software, "old" hardware that still works perfectly well is important to me. That's a huge part of what I love about Linux. Sure, the kernel can't support every kind of legacy hardware. But it does what it can, and as a result Linux has a community of people who fix up old laptops (famously Thinkpads, but I've seen all kinds), and get them to run and be useful long after Microsoft and Apple would have condemned them to the trash heap.
And so I chose to rep Xorg, not only because I use it, but because it's the exact kind of old, versatile, functional software that I love being able to use.
