On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 09:16 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > So the practical problems facing people requiring non-free software > appears solved or possible to solve.
As I understand it there are two problems solved by proposal A/E: Users who aren't aware of the firmware problem are directed by the Debian website to download the free installer, they try it out, find it doesn't work on their hardware and then abandon Debian in favour of other distros, or ask questions about it to the Debian support channels or the Debian teams involved in the image creation/distribution. They always get the non-free installer eventually, but we have wasted their time and ours by directing them to the free installer by default. Since the hardware most users use causes the first problem, the people fielding these support requests see that the free installer is in most cases not useful and therefore want to stop building or working on it. My earlier proposal that solves these issues without a GR or SC change: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/683a7c0e69b081aae8c46bd4027bf7537475624a.ca...@debian.org -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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