• Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    71·
    5 months ago

    I know that it’s a joke, but find me a distro that doesn’t include any proprietary blobs.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      61·
      5 months ago

      I think there are a few GNU extremist distros that don’t package drivers with blobs. They don’t even boot on some CPUs if your motherboard hasn’t had the necessary microcode patches, lots of hardware simply doesn’t work (WiFi, Bluetooth, sound, sometimes even ethernet), but they’re fully open.

      I have no idea how Linux-Libre is doing. I think Guix also had a Linux distro that refuses blobs by default. Most reviews end with “the WiFi doesn’t work but it was nice experiment”, it seems.

    • Hapbt@mastodon.social
      52·
      5 months ago

      @Dehydrated this is my pet peeve everytime i try to discuss anything about linux someone interrupts me about how SOME COMPONENT is proprietary
      like yeah, the keyboard on the laptop is proprietary, so are all the ICs, come on…

      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 months ago

        All the hardware is proprietary. The CPU, the ME in the CPU, the chipset on the mainboard, the BIOS, the RAM and SSD controllers, the TPM and everything else. Even the damn battery controller hardware and software are proprietary. It really doesn’t matter though.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          33·
          5 months ago

          I mean we have a monolithic kernel, with every single line of code running as root, that contains proprietary garbage. Thats even worse than Windows if you ask me, where you can see the drivers processes, which means they are seperate processes.

          I will soon compile my own kernel, because I dont really feel good with running such a bloated piece of bad code on my standard intel laptop.