And that’s not true. You went by what you wanted to get. It’s different.
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Frankly I have more than enough with all these politic discussions in the forum of a distribution which clearly stated to be non politic.
In my opinion they are disturbing when not toxic instead.
It makes me wonder if this may be the purpose..
I suggest to please stop starting/replying such topics and go to debate to more appropriate places like social media and the likes.
Extremely fair point.
I understand what you guys are saying and it does give me something to think about. I do not want to rush to judgment and just blurt out the first thing I am thinking here. I will digest this a bit and consider what to think about this topic.
@rugyada I’m just trying to figure all this stuff out. There is no such thing as politically neutral and everything is political, whether you want it to be or not. there is only winning and losing, nothing in between. I’m sorry about that reality, I don’t like it either but it is reality.
Responding because somehow you replied to me and yet quoted @LeeTalbert.
If it helps you, I agree with you. My politics here is regarding the politics of software freedom, that being: should people be able to use/change/redistribute the software on their computers without restriction, and should that ability be protected with legal violent force (which requires the demand that the software MUST be distributed under those terms)? My position is a 100% YES. My political position: software should be free in the same way speech is under the exact original spirit of 1st Amendment of the US Constitution. That being, the four essential freedoms described by the Free Software Foundation.
What I don’t like and what doesn’t make sense to me is when people join software spaces and clearly don’t care (or care to learn) about the politics of software freedom, but something other than that. My polite demand is that those people join a place where it makes sense to push for that special interest/issue. If you care about gun rights, for example, join a gun-rights group/space, don’t push for it here. Doesn’t make sense. This applies to up, down, left, right, diagonal, etc. whatever BS label you want to apply to someone’s meme politics.
There is only winning and losing, nothing in between
This is what I disagree with (at least in the current context behind this statement). In politics, a lot of what makes a stable government (like a republic) is when that system allows for nuance, compromise, and options. When people frame the stakes as 100% all-or-nothing (which, it isn’t), then things get ugly real quick. When people vote on paper and trade words, that is more desirable with me than using bullets instead. That again requires giving a certain amount of grace to people.
Is OM too tied to KDE?
Can OM be “too” tied to whatever?
it’s a question incorrect by design.
Is KDE Plasma the favorite OM desktop?
Yes. Matter of choices.
Are there any plans to replace it with something else?
Not in short term.
This concludes the answer to OP.
Those who don’t like KDE Plasma are free to install any alternative desktop available in OpenMandriva repository or install any other distro they like better.