The thing is that I'm not experiencing this clipboard issue on Plasma, but on a fresh installation of Void Linux with niri. There are reports of this issue all over[1][2][3], so it's clearly not an isolated problem. The frustrating thing is that I wouldn't even know which project to report it to. What a clusterfuck.
I can't go back to X11 since the community is deliberately killing it. And relying on a fork maintained by a single person is insane to me.
Far from it. The recent XLibre release[1] has a long list of bugfixes and new features.
Besides, isn't the main complaint from the Wayland folks that X11 is insecure and broken? That means there's still a lot of work to be done. They just refuse to do it.
To be fair, X11 has worked great for me for the past ~20 years, but there are obvious improvements that can be made.
No one is killing it. No one willing to work on it is a very very different thing, and it's very bad faith and needlessly emotional to attribute malice to a lack of support.
What's in very bad faith is twisting the words of the people who work on these projects[1], and blaming me for echoing them.
It's very clear from their actions[2][3] that they have been actively working to "kill" X11.
There are still people willing to work on it, hence the XLibre fork. The fact that most mainstream distros refuse to carry it is another sign that X11 is in fact being actively "killed".
[1] is correct, though. You don't own Xorg, nor are you entitled to make distro maintainers support it. The Steam Deck doesn't support Xorg officially, but I don't see anyone rioting in the streets. If X11 has died, then it was a Darwinian process.
Nobody is claiming ownership over Xorg. That's ridiculous. If anything, it's the people who are deliberately trying to "kill" it. Some people simply want to keep working on it, many people still want to keep using it, yet they're being forced not to by egomaniacal children.
The job of distro maintainers is to make software accessible for their users. It's not to provide support for the software, nor to fix its bugs. Choosing to not package a specific software is user hostile.
I can't go back to X11 since the community is deliberately killing it. And relying on a fork maintained by a single person is insane to me.
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1d4s9bw/ctrlc_ctr...
[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/tuxedocomputers/comments/1i9v0n7/co...
[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1jl6zv7/why_does_copyp...