So it looks like the woke FOSS crowd has taken notice of OpenMandriva and is boycotting a FOSDEM event that the OpenMandriva co-founder is holding. I'm not familiar with FOSDEM so I don't know if they could get them kicked out of the convention entirely, but I expect these parasites to try to kick them out of as many FOSS spaces as possible.

@PurpCat Oh that. I think this is different because this is an actual "professional" project run by a non-profit organization with a president going by his real name.

@xianc78 On one hand nobody was even giving two shits and a fuck about OpenMandriva before this. Just look at the SourceForge metrics. Most people running Linux are going to run the same 4 distros everyone else runs.

On the other hand, I love seeing the LGBT community and how much they have a persecution complex when they are not catered to at every whim. But these are the people who will kill themselves when they don't get their way, so...
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@PurpCat What really perked my interest was not their anti-woke stance, but rather there stance on being independent form Big-Tech as much as possible. Case in point, they bundle Ungoogled-Chromium as the default browser instead of vanilla Firefox like every other distro does. Granted, it's not a perfect solution since it's still reliant on Chromium's upstream, but still. If LadyBird becomes a viable alternative, I picture them switching to that instead.

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@xianc78 i'm gonna give it a try on another laptop I have for this purpose given I already have Devuan on another laptop or two

@PurpCat I'm probably going to try it too, just to see if it's worth recommending. Linux Mint has been my go to recommendation for years, but them actually working with Mozilla and censoring Lunduke's last name on their forums has given me second thoughts.

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