[suramya_tomar]

I use it on my laptop because it is stable and because I want my desktop and laptop to have the same environment as much as possible. Lots of others do the same as well. More and more people are moving from desktops to laptops so supporting them is an important consideration, This issue was important enough that it was addressed as part of the "How is Debian Doing" post earlier this year.

How is adding the firmware for the common chips to the installation media 'wasting their limited, mostly community funded resources' ? The packages are already there in the non-free branch they just need to add it to the installation packages. Plus a lot of testing and sanity checks but it is not like they need to recode the entire system which is what you seem to be making it out to be.

The firmware packages are stable and work great. All this is doing is including them in the initial setup itself rather than asking folks to download and install manually.