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Welcome to libre
A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
Resources
- Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
- Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in
$CURRENT_YEAR, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, NixOS or the many, many other offerings out there.
- Those on Apple Silicon Macs can consult Asahi Linux for available options.
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- Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
- Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
- Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
- All site-wide rules still apply
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- Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
- Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
- Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft
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How much more computer stuff do you want to learn? If you want to commit some time, I always recommend debian , it's stable, well supported but not really the easiest, what I mean is: it is easy enough to get going with it, but not so easy that everything will just work out of the box. Otherwise, Mint is great.
Don't do steamos as mentioned already, not worth the hassle. To know whether a game runs well on linux, check out protondb.com.
Also, as a small tip, don't try to avoid the commandline, you don't need to become a shell expert, but basic knowledge will help you a lot with everything.
I have a brief familiarity with the command line, it's just regedit I won't fuck with - would Debian just be a matter of finding the things I want to make it work how I want, and then leaving it to it, or would it require more ongoing maintenance?
Nice thing about debian is that it's really stable, so once Itoh got it set up it won't change or break. The downside is that some of the software might feel outdated at the end of the +2 year release cycle.
But other then doing updates every once in a while and a version upgrade every 2-3 years, you hardly need to do anything onceyou got it set up.