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According to Arch Linux's wiki: [1] "Arch is a pragmatic distribution rather than an ideological one. The principles here are only useful guidelines. Ultimately

According to Arch Linux's wiki: [1] "Arch is a pragmatic distribution rather than an ideological one. The principles here are only useful guidelines. Ultimately, design decisions are made on a case-by-case basis through developer consensus. Evidence-based technical analysis and debate are what matter, not politics or popular opinion." I don't know about Fedora or Debian since I don't use them but for sure they don't have "anti $IDEOLOGY" on their homepage right after the distro's name. And for reference, I'm not bothered by anti fascism since I'm not fascist, I just don't even want to think about fascism, socialism, communism, capitalism or politics in general when I'm minding my own business in Linux. I don't care at all about the the person I am collaborating with or the person who has written the software I am using's belief about politics. I couldn't care less that dwm, st or suckless in general is composed by neo-nazists (if that's true). I simply don't want to be reminded of politics existence when I'm using Linux. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux section 1.3

Fnoord 4y ago
They're political, just not explicit. You're confusing political with ideological. And, even then, ideological is just following some -ism. Which are everywhere, apparent or not. Personally, I'm not interested in a Linux distribution which is expressive about being 'anti-fascism', but I am very glad they declare they are. Its a sure notion (red flag) that I don't want to get involved. And a distribution, by its very nature, is making choices. Which default for X or Y, which package manager, which kernel, which licenses, etc etc. As software developed by neonazis: personally, if I'd know that to be true, I'd be wary of such software. YMMV.
- Asdrubalini 4y ago
  Honestly I have never experienced anything political officially from the Arch Linux team and I have been using it for five years. They have always been pretty pragmatic as they say, and technical choices are not political in the sense we are talking about (or could be in some cases like licenses, but Arch Linux lets you do pretty much whatever you want).

Fnoord 4y ago

They're political, just not explicit. You're confusing political with ideological. And, even then, ideological is just following some -ism. Which are everywhere, apparent or not. Personally, I'm not interested in a Linux distribution which is expressive about being 'anti-fascism', but I am very glad they declare they are. Its a sure notion (red flag) that I don't want to get involved. And a distribution, by its very nature, is making choices. Which default for X or Y, which package manager, which kernel, which licenses, etc etc. As software developed by neonazis: personally, if I'd know that to be true, I'd be wary of such software. YMMV.

Asdrubalini 4y ago
Honestly I have never experienced anything political officially from the Arch Linux team and I have been using it for five years. They have always been pretty pragmatic as they say, and technical choices are not political in the sense we are talking about (or could be in some cases like licenses, but Arch Linux lets you do pretty much whatever you want).