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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Quick, FOS users drop your distro here! (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FOS: Stands for "Free Operating System" as an inclusive term. Includes GNU/Linux, NonGNU/Linux, *BSD that are meant to liberate ones computing.

I'll start, I use Linux Mint on my laptop that I use for work daily. It uses the latest Xanmod linux kernel and flatpaks for apps with GNU Guix providing everything else.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

NixOS with Hyprland. I don't see myself changing unless something comes along that is just better NixOS. It's perfect for someone like me who loves to tinker but doesn't want to deal with the pain when that tinkering blows up in my face. I know I can set up other distros to have easy rollbacks like NixOS but the fact that it basically forces me to self document the changes I'm making while I'm doing them + the built in rollbacks and atomic upgrades make it essentially impossible for me to break. Even if I want to do something like have the bleeding edge version of one package and the stable version of another that have a shared dependency, it just works.

Getting started was a pain and it feels like I'm learning how to Linux all over again but I'm six or so months in and I'd say it's been worth it.