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The Framework/Omarchy thing. (i.ytimg.com)
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Does anyone know what's going on at Framework?

One of my friends mentioned Omarchy is great but he said to not use it cause of it's creator and I only just stumbled onto this trashfire just today.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 63 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)
  • Both Hyprland (which we'll just say has an unpleasant history of allowed comments) and Omarchy (DHH... Mostly self explanatory, but go ahead and read his blog and you'll see exactly the person DHH is. Dogwhistles and all.) were brought up as benefitting from Framework.
  • Nirav Patel (nrp) (Founder, CEO) replied by saying "its a big tent and everyone is welcome", which pissed off a lot of people.
  • Rather than respond in the community forums, nrp went to twitter to say he isn't bigoted.
  • Clarification of support was given, that no money went to DHH (kind of a lie here, I'll get to that), and only a bit to Hyprland. Avoided all discussion of the outsized amount of posts by framework about Omarchy.
  • Blog post was made by framework/nrp detailing how money was spent. Left out any mention of hardware being sent out, later edited.
  • blog post shows that Railsworld (DHH was the keynote speaker) received massive amounts of money by comparison to every other event. That includes hardware, Linux firmware, the major DEs, etc - combined. A truly astounding amount compared to every other sponsorship. To date I do not believe this has been addressed.

I don't know about further updates, at this point I've written off framework. If you want open, go MNTRe IMO.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If you want open, go MNTRe IMO.

Oh, and a GmbH instead of US.
That is now going to be a higher priority for me.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's neat, but not a serious competitor to something like Framework. The MNT laptops are just cool shells around a Rock chip RK3588, which is a quad core ARM (meaning it only has two performance cores, and two efficiency cores). It's a good competitor in the Raspberry Pi world, but not a serious contender in the x86 one.

If they somehow release a modern x86 version, RIP framework. Otherwise, I don't think many existing FW customers will be switching to MNT. (Although there are a lot of other better laptops on the market they could switch to)

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