Distro Wine packages making ntsync a mandatory dependency, framed with transphobic/sexist rhetoric
Key claims
- The OP asserts that Wine packages shipped by distros now require the previously optional ntsync kernel module, and uses the reported gender of its author to advance a bigoted claim that Linux development is being taken over by women/trans people.
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- /g/109573305 ↗ live · archive hostile developing 14 replies The OP asserts that Wine packages shipped by distros now require the previously optional ntsync kernel module, and uses the reported gender of its author to advance a bigoted claim that Linux development is being taken over by women/trans people.
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