The idea is cool (not for me personally, but I see the merit).

But this project has flip-flopped its name, its flip-flopped its distro, its flip-flopped its Desktop Environment. Development has stopped and started multiple times.

I don’t think this distro or this project is something that can be relied upon.

Surely it’d make more sense to develop this as a theme that can be installed by Plasma users, rather than as an entire distro?

I gave it a little test 2 days ago. It’s lacking polish and a few options you’d expect to see.

The auto tiling works very well.

The PopOS theming often doesn’t work on apps you download, often they don’t even respect your dark/light mode preference.

I had one crash, but it was fine upon reboot.

Padding and visual consistency is a bit hit and miss.

Personally I’d say it’s not quite ready for my tastes, but it’s certainly usable. I can definitely see the complaints I have being rectified in pretty short order.

No, it isn’t.

Some parts are open source. Much of it isn’t. And it’s certainly not limited to just UX.

ChromeOS isn’t successful.

I use the flatpak so it makes no difference to me, but nice. That used to frustrated me.

That’s hard to do given the driver issues, how locked down phones are, and the fact you’re completely reliant on the benevolence of another faceless multi-billion (or trillion) dollar company.

It’s proprietary with some open source components.

They’ve said they aim to be fully open source some day

That was the PR misstep I mentioned.

I think it would be easier to beef up Flatpak’s permissions system than to become reliant on Google

You’re so quirky and different!

Virtue signalling is very important to some people.

Yes, it’s hyperbole.

Framework gave money or laptops to a bunch of different Linux projects and has generally been very active in the Linux community.

One of the laptops they gave out went to DDH, who in addition to having a project that in reality is little more than an Arch script, also posts a lot of alt-right drivel online.

Most famously him moaning about London being too full of immigrants - something made even more ironic given that he himself is an immigrant to the UK. Clearly he meant non-white immigrants.

It’s unknown how much Framework knew about his unsavoury opinions, and plenty of other projects they’ve supported have been very progressive, so it doesn’t seem like they’re choosing to support only people who align with a specific political stance.

A lot of people are frustrated with their response to the criticism - that they’re a small team that don’t want to wade into the politics of each project they donate a laptop to. Which I kind of understand, but I also understand being miffed at them for sending a laptop to a super hateful person then shrugging their shoulders and saying “look, we don’t want to be political or have to research the personal opinions of people in the community”.

Personally I think it’s more of a fuckup and PR misstep rather than endorsing any particular world-view.

Nah. They actually already were a sponsor of it before then. This article is just publishing old information.

You’re so strong. Thank you for your valiant effort.

There’s nothing wrong with giving money to FOSS projects.

In fact, a major issue with the open source world is users never donating.

I’ve never used Zorin and don’t intend to, but the existence of optional paid software isn’t why.

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But, much like the thorn, it’s quite jarring.

Framework tried to design a version that worked with SODIMM with AMD but the performance was seriously hampered, and the plan was dropped.