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Re:Debian and firmware by thrown12 on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:58PM (#31079644)
>As bad as it is in the short term the only way we'll see long term change is to keep the friction on. It's this friction that forces the change of habit to support manufacturers who open their firmware. If it's seamless then there's no incentive to seek out the open option next time you buy.

The only friction you're causing is to Debian users. My current laptop is Arch after 5 laptops that ran Debian. My Debian desktop is barely functional with the friendliest AMD GPU to Linux I could find.

By my next update cycle I will be Debian free for the first time in 20 years. Debian needs less friction if it wants to keep me as a user.

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Re:Debian and firmware by dralley on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:22PM (#31086055)
I doubt that has anything to do with "friction", Debian's release cycle just isn't compatible with wanting to run new hardware. Drivers are distributed via the kernel, Debian uses old kernels and can't afford to do the same kind of hardware enablement backports that Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical can do, so being stuck with the old kernel means poor support for brand new hardware.
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Re:Debian and firmware by thrown12 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:55PM (#31102878)
Not sure why you're talking about new hardware. The graphics card is now 4 years olds.
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