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Daily driving a GNUIX or some of those super libre OSs. (lemmy.world)
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I have a thinkpad lying around. I have used Linux over the last 5 years and I an NOT a power user. I use Mint and it gets the job done for me.

Lately though, the whole libre software bug bit me and I want at least one machine that is libre compatible through and through. I have heard some stuff like Parabola and GNUIX or something like that, but thought it best to ask around first before even thinking about something like this.

My work essentially involves writing documents (LaTeX and LibreOffice), doing statistical analysis, and making lectures. I access emails via Thunderbird. That's it.

Does anyone here daily drive a fully libre laptop?

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[-] theblips@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Can someone clue me in to why Mint wouldn't be "libre"? What does "libre" mean in this context exactly?

[-] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Preventing in any way to make work modern firmware for any modern devices which dynamically loading from ur disk ,and prevent installing closed source software too ,they blocked even electron framework need to work for software like freetube for example.

[-] theblips@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not trying to be mean, but I didn't really understand much of that. Can you translate from your native language on DeepL or something?

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