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Re:Debian and firmware by eptcyka on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:31AM (#31084487)
Allowing one to make the choice in a pragmatic manner instead of wasting time dancing around to praise the FOSS gods to achieve the same end goal is stupid. Just having an option in the installer to allow non-free firmware and drivers won't move Debian to be any closer to ChromeOS. It will make it easier to use for a lot of people. Stop with this false dichotomy that bad UX implies giving up freedoms. All I'm arguing for is allowing users to make their choices about their own freedoms easier.
Re:Debian and firmware by usrn on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:47AM (#31084733)
>Compromising on freedom doesn't result in a loss of freedom

This is an immediate and direct contradiction.

Re:Debian and firmware by eptcyka on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:13PM (#31085138)
The freedom is already lost, it just takes users more time to get their machine to have a working network connection.