If you want to go with that reach you might as well talk about what Microsoft's stance on ideological BS is, but in both cases you're missing the point that there's a stark difference between having those sorts of associations buried away on your homepage and them being presented in the very first words you read on it.
According to you MX Linux is too political because they're friendly with another distribution that calls themselves "proudly anti-fascist" and displays a tutorial video featuring an ugly person on their front page. As far as I can find, the only other political statement AntiX has ever made was on a Mastodon account where they made a single post saying that there was genocidal influence on Twitter https://mastodon.social/@antix@mastodon.sdf.org. MX Linux does not call themselves an anti-fascist distribution, and have a portion of their "about us" called "our positions" where they say nothing political. If you consider this MX Linux being too political, I have no idea how you can call Mint's partnership with Mozilla a "reach", and it simply seems like you're looking for reasons hate MX Linux.
Apple (and most companies) have been anti-GPL for a while. The original post is gone, but here's an archive of someone who measured the amount of GPL programs per OSX release:
I would honestly rather shoulder the political slant rather than use systemd. Of the "easy"/"new user" distros, the only ones with that going for them are probably Devuan or MX Linux. Of course, for users with more technical inclinations I'd always suggest Gentoo above all, or if they're on a shitbox or otherwise don't like compiling, Void, CoC be damned. If not that, Artix. Point still stands: systemd creep is far and away worse than some random political bloviating.
I will point out that this isn't entirely accurate as some programs are not listed on this website, such as the GPL2 Apple Chess https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Chess. Something very weird is that I can't seem to find license files in any of these repos, so I'm not sure if Apple is actually following the terms of the GPL and other licenses that they're using, also the "Download source code" button for Apple chess leads you to the Apple OS webpage which doesn't seem to host the Chess code at all, so that might be a problem.
I would like to clarify that I don't believe MX Linux or Linux Mint are political projects, and as a private person I only care whether the project is political if I don't consider the project to be trustworthy, like Librewolf which is run by an insane person.
Is there any mainstream distro that does not come preloaded with Firefox? No matter what you're going to need a browser and the only other browsers are closed source, based on Chromium with has a hostile license, or so far behind supporting HTML7 or whatever number were on that they are effectively broken for users.
Zorin and some other distros have switched to shipping a modified version of Brave, because Firefox is committed spyware now, but it's not a huge deal since anyone who is choosing their operating system will also choose their web browser.
Mental Outlaw:
>hey I'd like to try Linux what should I install
MX is actually more noob friendly than Mint. Your average newbie shouldn't be tinkering with inits to begin with, so the fact that it defaults to sysvinit (with the option to switch to systemd if you're that way inclined) should be invisible to them. MX has a better overall user experience in the UI, with a comprehensive GUI toolset (in the form of MX Tools) for dealing with basic issues than Mint or anything Ubuntu offers, and in my experience is more stable and less prone to "oh shit something broke for no reason" episodes (whereas Ubuntu-based systems - including Mint - occasionally shit out their guts for reasons that would not be obvious to a a seasoned greybeard, let alone a neophyte). It also manages to strike a good balance between newbie friendly and actually capable.
The guy who made Linux Mint is not a big fan of Isreal.
Yeah. Gotta say I agree here.
It's in the README
This is the source code for Apple's Chess.app Version 3.0, as shipped
in MacOS X 10.8. This project consists of two components:
The Chess engine, "sjeng", and the graphical frontend.
"sjeng", contained in the "sjeng" subdirectory, is distributed under the
terms of the GNU General Public License. See sjeng/COPYING for
details.
The graphical frontend, i.e., all files not in the "sjeng"
subdirectory (including files derived from glChess which Apple has
permission to relicense under the following terms), are distributed
under the terms of the Apple Sample Code License: