Hi Soren, On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 02:16:36PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
In my mind, the most important question is if Debian is doing things to move us towards a world that allows us to run fully free systems, including fully free (as in freedom) hardware and fully free firmware.
We already do that. If you have hardware that runs without non-free firmware, you can install and run Debian today without a single bit of non-free software getting installed or run. The only thing you have to accept is that there is non-free firmware on your install medium (and ONLY there, if you don't install it).
I think that Debian shouldn't be held accountable and we should not waste our time discussing that such hardware becomes increasingly rare.
The majority of our users choose Debian not for political reasons, but to use it. And using Debian means to use non-free firmware on the vast majority of today's hardware. If we'd ditch support for 90+ % of today's hardware or even make it harder to use those 90+ % of today's hardware, users would shrug and use a different distribution. As a Debian Developer, I DO want people to use Debian and am all for making it easier, not harder.
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