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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

    This is definitely top 10 Linux memes of all time for me.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I feel like Y should be the successor to X.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Whyland doesn't sound as good though.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Do you mean like X, Why?, Z

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    You made me check my zipper.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    they do NOT get the joke!!!1!!

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's not really a joke. The X window system is a successor to the W window system.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    There actually was a short-lived attempt to create a Y window system as a successor to X (before Wayland).

    Funnily enough the website is still live, despite no progress in almost 20 years: y-windows.org

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    oh no anarchy chess started leaking again

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Actual defunct process

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    Help! I'm getting screen tearing in the new twitter!

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ahhh I can see the graphical glitches already

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    on X.com, I presume (that's where I get them)

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No, the successor for XCOM is UFO: Alien Invasion.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    The development had stopped since 2020, you'll have to make do with inferior closed-source commercial clone called XCOM 2.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can someone please ELI5 this to me? Everyone seems to get it (as a joke?) but me.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ooh, it's the logo, god damn it, got it 2 secvomds after poating this.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just in case anyone else stumbles across this and is confused, I'll explain in more detail.

    On Linux there are two display server protocols, the very old X11 and the newer Wayland, which was designed as a successor to X11 by its maintainers.

    Elon Musk announced today that he is renaming Twitter to X (yes, just X). The above posts takes the mick out of this on this by announcing a social media website called Wayland, i.e. the successor to Musk's X.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    To expand, one of his early businesses was X.com which was a payment processor and sold to paypal and eventually shutdown. He bought the domain again back in 2017.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    He’s also been wanting to name something X for a while. When Ford wouldn’t let him name the Model 3 the Model X (so his cars would spell SEX) he must have sat on his laurels until he had a brain aneurysm big enough to make him think it’s a good idea to dump the Twitter brand for a math problem.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Isn't it that he wanted model E but that's the one Ford wouldn't allow? Because there is a Tesla model X. He wanted to spell SEXY but instead he now has S3XY.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah yea, that’s right. I misremembered.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thank you, this is just the kind of thorough explination i needed to understand this meme lol

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    It's not just the logo, the domain name is extremely similar too (x.com vs x.org).

    Big brands like to own all variants of their domain (so you can't register google.org or facebook.net, for example). But X can't do that.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Like Weyland-Yutani?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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