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by taylanub
4225 days ago
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Adobe Flash is an outright offense if you ask me. A distro providing a separate repo for non-free software is one thing, forcing me to run uninspectable code, which is known to have a horrible security record, under my user's privileges, is another thing. As OpenBSD people say, it's a feature that it's missing. :-P I don't know what problem with media codecs there are. FFmpeg, as free software, implements H.264 just fine, even though it's a patented format. I don't know how exactly the legal aspects of that work, but I'm happy it somehow works, because otherwise I couldn't watch all my [spoiler]Chinese cartoons[/spoiler]. Now WiFi cards are a problem from what I know. You can buy a WiFi dongle with free software drivers though to get around that issue, or replace your laptop's WiFi card with one that has free drivers. I suspect that will be the one major issue with the GNU OS, and the only thing we can do is ask manufacturers of WiFi hardware to be more cooperative. The other big problem tends to be the BIOS, but GRUB/Linux-libre at least boot just fine on proprietary BIOS, so it's no issue for those who don't care. Those who want to take the further step for software freedom may want to look into LibreBoot: http://www.libreboot.org/ |
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Dropbox? BTSync? (I .. don't care about the latter, and try to replace the former with SyncThing atm, but I'm trying to make a point: It's more than just a single binary blob to watch cat movies or porn in a browser)
What I really like to install is Steam.
What I'm trying to say here is: If there's no middle ground, no way to fulfill my needs, the system just isn't for me. I might support the idealistic idea, but I cannot (or, more precise: I don't want to) work with a number of limitations.
I didn't even think about wifi or anything hardware related. If that doesn't "just work" it's again impossible for me to use the project and I need to bury the idea of trying Guix right next to my failed attempt to run nixos as my host system.