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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (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 (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I collected some mastodon links so you know roughly what to look for:

  • here’s a game developer unable to do window positioning, multi-monitor, display type detection, hi-DPI… in portable ways on Wayland. window positioning in particular bites game developers hard, and is still unfixed for, gonna be honest, horseshit security reasons.
  • this entire thread is kind of an excellent summary
  • screen recording on Wayland sucks, and what’s interesting about that thread is the smug person replying gets it (to my memory) wrong, portals for screen recording are a hack
  • in fact here’s the post where Ariadne told me I was wrong about portals; it’s also a good starting point if you want to see what protocol discussions look like
  • here’s one of the jwz threads out of many

in conclusion: how dare I. don’t I know these are just poor, mostly corporate-backed volunteers

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Appreciate both responses. Thank you.

Before today I didn't know the difference between a compositor and desktop environment and I thought Wayland was fine. Now Abra and I are very close.