I got my start with linux by using Mandrake, way back in the 2.14 kernel days, so it makes me smile to see a successor to that coming out as anti-woke.
TL;DW - The President of OpenMandriva has come out to Bryan Lunduke after his call for people to come forward from his last video discussing if there was anything left in terms of operating systems that wasn't woke. The president stated that while he has to use some code from the woke crowd that is unavoidable, his project is the opposite to woke. Opposes Codes of Conduct, discriminatory projects and the programming language Rust unless necessary. Also provides a C++ file of a "WokeOS shell" that mocks wokeness, privilege, CoC's and trigger warnings.
ETA: For those who do care and refuse to install it, yes, it does use systemd.
There's a lot of politics involved in Rust's community which tends to attract the left. Demanding diversity and the removal of white, straight men from their organisation and conferences. There's also an informal war between Rust and C++ where the former would like to replace the latter. You can imagine how that is going down with Linux maintainers who staunchly use C++.
Linux is staunchly C, not C++, but the point still applies.
Personally, I wonder if Rust will have any relevance in 2 decades. C, Zig, or a cleaner C++ like for low level systems programming (with better tools to write memory safe code), and a automatic memory managed language with good enough performance for newer hardware. If Rust were such a developer improvement over c++, why hasn't a Rust game engine displaced Unity and Godot?
I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
It has both a rolling release model like Arch but also a traditional release model like many distributions. I think everyone is just relieved that there is a anti-woke distribution in a sea of either woke ideology or silence.
I got my start with linux by using Mandrake, way back in the 2.14 kernel days, so it makes me smile to see a successor to that coming out as anti-woke.
I'm pretty sure I still have the install CDs. Great memories.
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v66k004-openmandriva-the-non-woke-linux-distro.html
TL;DW - The President of OpenMandriva has come out to Bryan Lunduke after his call for people to come forward from his last video discussing if there was anything left in terms of operating systems that wasn't woke. The president stated that while he has to use some code from the woke crowd that is unavoidable, his project is the opposite to woke. Opposes Codes of Conduct, discriminatory projects and the programming language Rust unless necessary. Also provides a C++ file of a "WokeOS shell" that mocks wokeness, privilege, CoC's and trigger warnings.
ETA: For those who do care and refuse to install it, yes, it does use systemd.
What's woke about rust? That the shit where they do away with "oppressive" terms like "master" and "slave", etc?
There's a lot of politics involved in Rust's community which tends to attract the left. Demanding diversity and the removal of white, straight men from their organisation and conferences. There's also an informal war between Rust and C++ where the former would like to replace the latter. You can imagine how that is going down with Linux maintainers who staunchly use C++.
And this exists: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
Which feeds from this: https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md
Which really could be described as "check your thinking".
Linux is staunchly C, not C++, but the point still applies.
Personally, I wonder if Rust will have any relevance in 2 decades. C, Zig, or a cleaner C++ like for low level systems programming (with better tools to write memory safe code), and a automatic memory managed language with good enough performance for newer hardware. If Rust were such a developer improvement over c++, why hasn't a Rust game engine displaced Unity and Godot?
It's also infested by trannies.
How is Mint for us newbies?
I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
Mint is the best distro for Just Working. It might not be absolutely perfect, but it's as close as you're gonna get.
The main issue I had with it was that display scaling didn't work great. It was okay, but Windows really has scaling nailed down.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
Last time I tried it 7 years ago it still had driver issues with regular mice.
My parents could use it without any instructions
I was gonna ask this
I was a mandrake fan. Lfg!
I use PCLinuxOS, a fork of Mandrake. I will install OpenMandriva on a VM to try it out and support them.
Never even heard of this one before. How's it? Anyone used it before?
It has both a rolling release model like Arch but also a traditional release model like many distributions. I think everyone is just relieved that there is a anti-woke distribution in a sea of either woke ideology or silence.
VoidLinux looks to be totally apolitical as far as I know, and it's also systemd free. So that's two counts of faggotry avoided.