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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.

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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.
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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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[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never been able to understand what an "immutable" distro is for or how it would change my life.

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[–] pongo1231@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Atomic updates with the ability to roll back to a previous state without much fuss would be the one main advantage that comes to mind

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[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

Mainly stability for me. I don't have to worry about my system breaking because I can easily rollback to a previous version on the grub menu, then I can pin a working image and/or rollback to multiple versions behind if I need it for whatever reason. I also don't need to worry about updating because Bazzite just updates in the background and applies it on reboot/shutdown.

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[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

I suppose I don't understand the need because I have never needed the feature. An extremely basic distro has always been very stable for me.

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[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 1 point 19 hours ago*

I guess it makes more sense as an end-user if you need rather up to date software, I game a lot so having newer kernel, KDE and mesa versions are a must for me. For distro devs it means they have a much more standard environment since everyone's system is practically identical software-wise where it matters for them.

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