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It's not that I have this mindset personally, I bought and librebooted a Thinkpad. Linux has no prestige among anyone except non-nerds. MacOS does.

You have to approach any issue from the issue of the majority of users.

If Ubuntu, Debian, etc all switched to the Linux Libre kernel, there wouldn't be mass sales of old Atheros cards (Most of which aren't sold anymore), they'd just switch to some other Distro like Manjaro or something.

I'd love for all hardware and software to be free, I really would. But putting up these barriers of entry to most simply restricts new users, especially of the free-er Distro's like the ones the FSF recommends.

Imagine how many more users would use, say, Trisquel if it had an installer option with the non-free WIFI blobs enabled. It could be a seperate ISO, and I'm sure we'd both rather people used Trisquel than Ubuntu being used, right?

I'd imagine the average experience of a brand new FSF user is going to the recommended page, downloading a random one on the list, then being confused when it doesn't detect WIFI on the installer setup. Then they probably just go back to Ubuntu, never to go down that rabbit hole again.

My ideology is bringing as many people as close to freedom as possible. I think the FSF is obstructive to that goal.