I have been using GNU for so long now and what always annoyed me, was the fact that the last proprietary components of my OSs were always some kernel firmware blobs that are packaged with the official Linux kernel. Now I’d like to know if anyone has already tried the Linux-libre kernel on a modern system.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    While I understand and empathize with your dislike of proprietary blobs (fuck you, NVIDIA), every game is a huge blob unless you’re playing FOSS games exclusively.

    • Rex GNŪrum@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      4 months ago

      That’s true. And that’s exactly why I give zero trust to any executable that I don’t have the source code of. But there is a huge difference between running kernel level proprietary software and user space apps, which are easily at least sandboxable.