@wolf480pl They removed the image that was free of proprietary peripheral software and now only supply one chock full of proprietary software that doesn't respect the freedom of the users; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms

Most proprietary peripheral software is under terms that deny all 4 freedoms (some may allow unmodified redistribution, but with restrictions that effectively deny freedom 2).

The installer also installs proprietary software *without asking the user*, even if it *isn't even usable*.

For example, if you install Debian in a VM on an intel CPU, it will go install intel's proprietary software microcode updates, even though VMs can't load those.

Hidden in the documentation, there is a note to pass the flag "firmware=never" to the boot args to disable such antifeature, but an opt-out is not acceptable and it also makes the claim that proprietary peripheral software isn't software, rather it's "firmware" (the only reasonable definition of firmware I've found is socketed ROM chips with microprocessor instructions on them - as you cannot reprogram a ROM chip, but you can physically swap the chips without hardware modification - while software that gets loaded onto a peripheral devices RAM lacks any sort of firmness).

Debian compromised and decided to take the faster road, too bad that proprietary road goes to proprietary hell rather than to freedom; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html