Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a “big tent” after a Debian developer objected to the company’s sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.
Antoine Beaupré, aka anarcat, demanded that Framework clarify its political position with regard to these two projects.
Hyprland, a Wayland compositor, is led by a “toxic and hateful community,” Beaupré observed, and Omarchy, a Linux distribution, comes from David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), a controversial figure in the Ruby and Linux communities.
Imagine the downfall of framework being the donations made to some obscure (tankie?) dev that a part of the community does not agree with. This toxic “holier than thou” attitude of the linux community leads to fragmentation and will be the doom of the linux phone project too, I swear. Someone will find an obscure package developed by an asshole/tankie/nazi/whatever and will rage about how the project is now immoral because the project devs support it and insist on a public boycott. Why do some people seem to be unable to separate the software from the developer? Framework or the software dev is not your friend. Is their hardware/software decent and open? Cool, then keep using it, tankie devs be damned, or at least fork it and make your own morally pure version. But this endless bickering over what devs support will lead to nothing good.
completely ignores that its about the donations and not “just” using their software.
Letting shit slide will lead to nothing good.
Nah
I’m not a fan of Hyprland nor Omarchy simply because I think they’re both shit products. One is a neon buggy mess and the other is glorified dotfiles.
That being said if articles and posts weren’t constantly made about the devs/creators of both I’d have no clue they’re also backed by morons. And I imagine a good majority of the userbase as no clue. I mean hell just go to any unixporn community be it on reddit, piefed, or lemmy and most posts are going to be hyprland “rices” and I guarantee you those people either don’t know the political leanings of the dev or simply don’t care. the ONLY way you would know is if you hung out in the hyprland discord and honestly…why would you want to do that?
I mean shit I use NixOS and I know of the drama currently surrounding that but I’m not going to stop using NixOS. I like it. I also use Kitty on one of my machines and I know the dev for that is an asshole but I still use it. I know there are some devs at KDE that are dicks but I’ll still use that.
If we stopped using things purely because the devs of whatever thing were assholes then, my guy, that wouldn’t leave us with much to use at all. I mean I could say I will never use Arch because the one dbz fanboy head mod on the arch forums is a total asshole, but that’s not going to happen.
Now it’d be one thing if say the Hyprland dev was using that $5 a month “Hyprland Premium” money to go fund some MAGA group or what have you, THEN you got some ground to stand on. if DHH suddenly started monitizing Omarchy (which, honesltly, wouldn’t put it past him to start doing that soon) then yeah, that’s another thing. But Framework sponsoring some assholes is whatever. If the White House suddenly starts throwing Omarchy and Hyprland on all their rigs then ok, you got every right to be pissed. But right now? man use what you want. If you want to hail DHH’s dotfiles as the second coming of linux, then have at it. if you want to make your windows purple and round and then have your WM slow to a crawl after 4 hours then again, have at it.
Man, humans are cooked when there’s still so many idiots like you who think “assholes who specifically think certain people aren’t people / should live” is just normal assholery.
Yeah, I’m sure that’ll definitely lead to a peaceful path, bub.
I just fucking hate libinput and wish we had better driver options. I am about to switch back to Gnome from Hyperland just because I need to not tab 400 times to get to a field with no mouse or touchpad. God what a shit show.