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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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In case you haven't heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about "[creating] a big tent" for open source".

If you've got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should've been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT: Found a solid summary of the situation in the wild - recommend checking it out.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MNT are still good, right? IIRC, all firmware is open-source with no binary blobs, and they’re a small group of queers in Berlin. (Please tell me they’re not antideutsche tankies or something.)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

looks good!

i would LOVE them to get an actual designer though. If ever a laptop looked like open source ...