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Indeed. For instance AntiX turns Debian into a speed demon, that way. But much more refined.
AntiX looks like a cool project, but the one place I don't want to see any kind of politics is in my OS [1]. I don't want my distro taking a stance on Israel vs Palestine, or Ukraine vs Russia, for example.
That being said, is there something there beyond the one statement in the homepage headline?
Its just saying "anti-fascist" which is a pretty uncontroversial thing to say. I am pretty sure the vast majority of people are opposed to fascism.
Yes, and positions against encryption or censorship could be considered political. But I don't want my OS to take a stance on wars, gender, and anything else not related to the code.
I am extremely hesitant to get involved in these "with us or against us" projects.
Anyway, I can assure that using AntiX was simpler/more hasslefree than using plain Debian. Because they give a shit about not including needed drivers for hardware relying on "big bad binary blobs" (Oh Noez!1!!) on their installation media, instead just focusing on getting things done, or rather UP on crappy hardware in innovative ways. That aside you're free to remaster that thing, once it's running, to your hearts content, removing anything you wouldn't want, or adding anything which is missing, styling, theming, choosing window-manager or desktop-environment, potentially making YOUR personalized installation media even smaller, and thus using even LESS RAM, thereby running more stuff even faster.
All by simply pressing a few function-keys during initial boot/install, and easy clicking in their graphical tools, afterwards.
If you'd apply your reasoning thoroughly to all the stuff you're using, you should probably disconnect from the net right now, never come back again, and try to live in a cabin in the woods, sustaining yourself. Have fun with that.
Looking at current day politics of most western countries, I'm not so sure about that anymore. Most people are only opposed to being labeled as such while supporting fascist politics
Only by broadening the definition of fascism to the point of meaninglessness.
It is clearly not true against any reasonable definition of fascism (e.g. Umberto Eco's 14 features of fascism)
I think if it was "anti-communist"/"anti-marxist" it would be equally not appropriate for an OS.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...
That is very much an American problem. The founder of Antix is Greek and it would be appropriate to interpret anti-fascist in the context of Greece and its history. It is very obvious he means something any decent person would oppose.
Why do Americans expect us all to conform to their culture and vocabulary? I am really fed up of this.