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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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[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 week 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.