Reconsidering Debian's Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware – A Call for Discussion
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I'd always wanted to (because Ubuttnu sucks, Fedora seemed like it would get all-wet from Red Hat pissing on their derivatives (which finally did happen just as the prophesies foretold), so I was using Arch which is, I mean fine — or at least okay — but just not the O.G. daddy linux that I wanted).
Not that it is insane to deal with getting the non-free firmware yourself on like, one real hardware machine, or a couple machines, but I took this change to mean Debian was sort of growing up from the Richard Stallman-level purity in favor of moving the lever one notch over toward the side of pragmatism.
As an aside, there's a full-thread index that reveals the scope of the discussion, which may not be obvious if you just click the link at the top of this thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/03/threads.html#0...