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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.

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- 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.
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This might be a shocking concept, but some people need their stuff to actually work!
Anything still broken after updating again is actually unnecessary bloat, or else it wouldn't still be broken
To your average Linux user... why care if things "work", what's important is that you have the FREEDOM to break everything!
But seriously, yeah, that's a valid criticism of many distros, depending on your use case. You need to choose the right one for your needs.
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