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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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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, try a GNU/Linux distribution.

Rules

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.
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Artwork

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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As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Why not Debian with the rt kernel and then install the software from the repos / flatpaks?

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[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Mostly because I’m lazy. But maybe that’s what I’ll have to do.

I reinstall pretty often because all my important persisted data is on a separate drive and it’s often faster than troubleshooting whatever bullshit is currently happening. Maybe I should look into NixOS and just have a config with everything I need on it.

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

You might be able to get pretty far with just backups of your home dir and package lists.

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