to people who have used the free distros, are they any good? do you feel more private/anonymous or is it a waste of energy
Are free distros worth it anons?
Leo Morris
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Owen White
>linux-libre kernel
Nope
Mason Murphy
no. also stallman wants the opposite of freedom (literally advocates masks and socialism)
Tyler Rogers
Literally just use Debian or Fedora. You can install Linux-libre if you're hyper concerned about a few kernel blobs that don't even load if they're not needed (as would be the case on any hardware these FSF distris would work on) and avoid enabling the non-free repos.
James Thompson
Once you realize you can use any technology you want without worrying about the silly ideological autism of a communist jew, you will be truly 'free'.
Sebastian Hall
Serious question, what's non-free Linux blobs since the Linux kernel is released under the Apache license anyway? It's copycenter, people may bundle it in proprietary software (WSL maybe?).
Also read this: ariadne.space
Anthony Powell
why can't i connect to the internet
James Robinson
Yes. It soothes the freetardism.
Joseph King
It's free for a reason user.
Chase Clark
I use GNU Guix, but with the regular kernel and some firmware. It's quite nice.
Linux kernel is GPLv2, not Apache. The nonfree firmware blobs are not in the kernel, they're in a separate repository called linux-firmware.
>tranny ramblings
Literally fuck off. Microcode is a shitty meme. Hurr durr the FSF didn't like hardware that required proprietary firmware even though someone wrote a replacement a decade later. Proprietary firmware is hard to avoid so might as well give up!
YWNBAW.
Michael Adams
Trisquel is honestly the most comfy freetard distribution there is.
A shame it's painfully outdated and packages are literally over 3 years old.
Jaxson Stewart
if you have supported hardware then they're the same as other distros, only with no non-free stuff in their official repositories (still nothing stopping you installing non-free stuff otherwise)
Tyler Mitchell
oh ps. that is the ONLY reason regular debian is not officially listed as a free distro, the fact it has an optional non-free repo, it's otherwise totally free ootb
Ayden Gomez
debian literally made me go download internet driver manually, because it didn't have a free version included or some such shit. everybody just goes and adds the non-free repos when the network is set up. niggerlicious, honestly.
i installed arch instead
Jace Long
there's an iso available that includes non-free firmware
also there's a fully free version of arch called parabola
Xavier Barnes
maybe so, but i did it 5yrs ago. didn't know about parabola.
i wouldn't want to switch to debian anyway, arch is stable af (even considering the bleeding edge, which I too need).
you are confusing the idea and the person behind the idea who happens to have other ideas. ie you are a retard.
Elijah Cox
not saying you did something wrong, i USE arch myself as well, have for the last 10 years in fact, it still surprises me how stable it is, considering how lazy the developers are
Wyatt Thompson
If you want half your hardware to not work properly, sure
Jordan Smith
No, it isn't 'totally free ootb'.
They still ship microcode and firmware on their 'deblobbed' kernel and ship the regular version of Firefox and Chromium, which are not free.
Michael Wood
>bleeding edge, which I too need
>I MUST OOPDATE!!!!1!
Jayden Collins
The FSF definition of "free" is absolutely retarded. So, no.
Carter Hill
What do you mean?