Facts first, then the trade-off.
What it is: a fork of the Xorg X server started by Enrico Weigelt in June 2025, after his work was removed from freedesktop.org. It's config-compatible, so your xorg.conf, drivers and window manager keep working. The project's own site frames the split in pretty political terms, so read xlibre.net and decide how much that matters to you.
Why you might:
- It's actively released: 25.1 is the stable series and 25.2 is in beta, while the Xorg server mostly gets fixes.
- It keeps binary compatibility with the proprietary Nvidia driver (570 and newer).
- Artix ships it in its world repo, and Obarun moved it to its official repo in May 2026 and plans to default to it.
Why you might not:
- Debian and Ubuntu have no official packages, and the project itself says the Arch AUR package isn't supported. Use their signed repo at packages.xlibre.net instead.
- Fewer people run it, so fewer eyes on regressions and security issues.
If you try it on Arch or Artix, it's the xlibre-meta package, and `xdpyinfo | grep vendor` tells you which server you're actually on. Keep a TTY login handy in case X won't start.
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2026-10-25 22:34:41 UTC
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