{"id":18595,"date":"2026-08-30T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18595"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:31:43","slug":"artix-linux-drops-xlibre-support-just-months-after-making-it-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/artix-linux-drops-xlibre-support-just-months-after-making-it-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Artix Linux Drops XLibre Support Just Months After Making It Default"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I run Xlibre and use the repositories for my Manjaro laptop and EndeavorOS desktop (mainline Arch), and other than one problem with my Nvidia driver on the desktop that made me fallback a version until they fixed it, Xlibre has worked perfectly fine for me. I looked at the link in the article with the forum report from Artist who resigned from Artix claiming harassment from the Xlibre devs, but it wasn’t well written and made some strange claims. He seemed bitter about changes they made with SonicDE and Systemd messing up his repository workflow, and the bug reports seemed like it might of had to do with the beta version of XLibre instead of Stable, and supposedly they offered to pay him for the work he was doing with the Artix repositories which he declined. Consequently, the way it read I’m less inclined to believe his report and it’s strange he’s resigning while being kind of whiny about it. I’m not on the social media platforms, so I couldn’t go look at what happened there. Also, I was going to overlook the bug in the installer of Artix that doesn’t properly setup the touchpad and install and try out the system, but since they’re dropping XLibre I’ll stick with Manjaro for now. Anyway, you can read it for yourself below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/artix-linux-drops-xlibre-support-just-months-after-making-it-default\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Artix Linux is discontinuing XLibre support only months after adopting it as the default X server, alongside refreshed August 2026 ISOs.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Bobby Borisov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artix Linux, an Arch-based rolling-release distro that avoids systemd, has stopped supporting XLibre just a few months after making it the default X server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This change stands out because Artix was one of the first distributions to adopt XLibre. In its April 2026 ISO release<\/a>, Artix switched the default X server from Xorg to XLibre, but still let users choose Xorg if they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Artix has changed direction. In their latest announcement<\/a>, the developers said they have ended support for XLibre. This ends what turned out to be a short experiment with XLibre as part of Artix\u2019s official graphics stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The devs say the decision was driven by regressions in XLibre that remain unfixed, together with the additional maintenance burden the project has created for the distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the XLibre news, Artix has also released its new official installation images for August 2026. Just for reference, the distro sets itself apart from Arch mainly by not using systemd. Instead, it offers several other init and service management systems, such as OpenRC, runit, s6, and dinit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its installation images also cover multiple desktop environments and a minimal base installation, giving users the option to build anything from a lightweight command-line system to a complete graphical desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The August ISO update comes after the last major installation media update in April 2026. That earlier release made PipeWire the default audio system on the ISOs, replacing PulseAudio. It also added user-service support for OpenRC and dinit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Artix users can update their systems as usual: sudo pacman -Syu<\/code>. For new installations, the updated August 2026 ISO images are available from the project\u2019s official download channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I run Xlibre and use the repositories for my Manjaro laptop and EndeavorOS desktop (mainline Arch), and other than one problem with my Nvidia driver on the desktop that made me fallback a version until they fixed it, Xlibre has worked perfectly fine for me. I looked at the link in the article with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18597,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions\/18597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}