Ansgar 🙀 <ans...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
Agreed. However none of that hardware require me to load non-free firmware from my operating system, which is my point. That situation is sufficient for me to accept to use the hardware and install an operating system built without non-free software on it. /Simon
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