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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 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 (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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[–] 63 points 1 year ago* (17 children)

Is this the same Framework that develops very promising modular and repairable laptops, one of three companies to do so? If so.. Fuck.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Who are the other companies?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
    1. Shift, an ecoconscious, as-yet untainted tech brand from Germany
    2. I thought Lenovo, but I seem to be wrong - they were playing with concepts, nothing on the market yet.
    • If you wish to buy from Shift you might need to enable a translator, as I believe their store is only in German.
    • The only bone some people have picked at in terms of Shift's ethical values is that they manufacture in China, but Shift maintain that their labour standards within the factory are kept high
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I am often skeptical of tablet/keyboard hybrid designs (the PineTab 2 has not exactly been a roaring success for me) but that ShiftBook is straight-up a more visually appealing design than any Framework

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    These are expensive and not especially performant, though. Cool, but not the most practical choice on any kind of budget.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Agreed on pricing, but something this low-volume is always unfortunately going to struggle. The RockChip stuff is a current darling in the FOSS-compatible hardware scene, but I'm not super enthusiastic about it yet. If there isn't an OS image you like, you've got to cobble one together with U-Boot and the DDR support blobs, which is a circa-1999 level of "fun"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just my personal opinion but that thing looks ugly af

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not a fan of the rainbow keyboard but at least it can be turned off.

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