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yes, not only that but I'm getting bored by people pretending they're doing anything good just because they've (finally) realized that using non-free software suffers from collaterals

I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro (and with exotic I mean whatever which isn't mainstream)

And I'm bored by people upvothing posts like this

And I know someone will tell is me who is wrong (and boring) but listen, that is just your opinion, as this is mine. One thing isn't opinionable though, svbtle isn't free, so this post really isn't a good one, for me

And if your story is about "how you reinstalled some random gnu/linux", well that is a 20 years old story; what is an hacker (news reader) interested in? the .Xmodmap settings?

The fight for freedom today seems to me to have been moved for the great part somewhere else, on the webapps. How about we "return to freedom" by debating on how we get rid of all these non-free web applications?

> I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro

Isn't it better than just doing nothing? What are you planning to do to do any good? What do you think the average non-tech guy should do?

sure it is better than doing nothing, except in my perception HN isn't a place for average non-tech guys so I get bored by this kind of posts

About me, I'm planning (and practicing) not to release any non-free code and also looking for alternatives to a few web apps which I'm still unable to replace (as per first post). That would be a much nicer topic to discuss for me.

Installing gnu/linux, no really. Again that is 20years old story.

> sure it is better than doing nothing, except in my perception HN isn't a place for average non-tech guys so I get bored by this kind of posts

I agree. There's a lot of avoidance of criticism for fear of "negativity" on HN. Not only does this hurt the (very positive) constructive criticism by regression-to-the-mean, it also causes us to lower our collective bar, from a "collection of smart people" into something more average.

The only non-free software I can't find a replacement for is a good sound/wave editor, something with an intuitive interface. Audacity's navigation controls are just terrible.

Also, I'm not selling myself as the only good guy around who always makes good decisions.

I use and need a replacement for gmail, for todoist, for linkedin and probably a few others.

So what would an hacker, returning to freedom, suggest as replacement?

Seems like you are very bored.

...we get rid of all these non-free web applications?

How you ask?

Build your own free apps. Publish. ??? Profit!

indeed that is what in these days I would consider interesting and eventually title "Returning to Free Software" ... have you got experiences to share on the matter?

And speaking about practical solutions, I know of identi.ca and libre.fm , do you know of others?

For Git hosting there's Gitorious, licensed under the AGPL.

What does esotic mean?

yeah thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that

btw, I meant to say "exotic"

Ah thanks. Yeah Crunchbang might look exotic now but I think it is an up and comer. It is currently #16 here http://distrowatch.com/ just above Slackware and basically offers a minimal UI on top of Debian.

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