I want to make a topic describing my experience so far in more detail, but perhaps I can summarize it here for now.
The main reason I am here other than any other distro, is because I don’t wanna use something where the devs force, promote, or otherwise speak a bunch of political stuff that has no place in software development. Technology is for everyone, like food; why do we need to put agendas behind it? I feel like even distros and their communities has become places people want to speak their minds and promote their ideologies, and I am just not happy with that, especially if they go directly against me as person, or against my faith. Ideally, I want something neutral in this regard, that at the very least doesn’t promote politics, but especially that won’t censor me for being different or for thinking different.
There is no action without a reaction; because of their recent push of the left side for all that they promote, I have begun to actively hope it fails wherever it goes. Not only that, most of the stuff there is harmful to all ages, especially children, but everyone who has breath in their lungs. I cannot support such a thing, and I will stand against it, even if that means not using an OS or participating into a community.
That aside, I have to be honest, most of the time everything feels so solid in OpenMandriva that I don’t see much difference to other distros. I can get the Plasma I like to work and function the same, most of the programs I need are available and do work through Flatpak, I barely ever need to add any third-party repo. So it works like everything else. However…
One thing I have noticed about OMA is that, perhaps people say it is less polished than others, but there are some parts which are better than MANY other distros I used. For instance: the cursor stays the same as the system’s in Flatpak applications. In other places I just have to settle for the oversized Adwaita one! That is a level of polish, isn’t it? I like that a lot.
Another perhaps more useful thing is that, being a musician, OMA by default brings a setting that benefits me in my audio work. It’s a file that naturally increases priority for audio applications, so that they don’t get sent to sleep or something similar, that ends up creating pops and clicks on my audio recordings, be it OBS or anywhere else. This is something I SUFFER a lot with in other distros, and that alone is reason for me to be here than elsewhere. Audio should just work, period. Kudos for OMA developers for not overlooking this one. I really appreciate this.
I am really happy I see someone mention the logo. I kept thinking of the logo and how I wanted that on my computer even though I was using other distros. Sure, Arch/Artix/Void is cool, but I wanted OpenMandriva. So here I am!
