Hi, On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 14:19 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Our experience seems to differ, I now run Trisquel and Guix on many of > my home and machines and servers. For my uses they all work without > non-free firmware. You have to be careful about what hardware you buy, > and chose your use-cases. And, yes, I use modern hardware -- i9-14900K > on desktop, i7 1260P and Ultra 155H in my two most used laptops, > ARS-111M-NR and Talos II on the server side, as well as a bunch of aging > Dell R630's.
This class of hardware *requires* non-free firmware. Lots of it, at every system layer. You just choose to use the non-free firmware version that happens to come pre-installed, but it's still non-free firmware just as a pre- installed Microsoft Windows is still non-free software, even when you just use it as a "firmware" to boot a firmware-free Linux in Windows' subsystem for Linux. (Which the FSF might arguably call "free" then...) Ansgar
