Notices by leah nicole (littlemisssynth@mastodon.online)

@libreleah but even that runs a fairly libre set of software, being used as my daily with debian sid and gnome (mostly as it suits my accessibility needs and doesn't cause problems) it runs some proprietary software (mostly messaging apps), and if someone made a port of coreboot or libreboot to it, i'd be tempted to switch so i can free myself of some of the icks of the hp firmware, but i ultimately view the compromise of running non free firmware when needed as worthwhile if it suits my needs

@libreleah realistically most of the time the handful of windows apps i need run fine in wine or proton, i mostly keep it around for stuff like software for futzing with phones, as trying to get stuff that needs to talk to usb devices is a bit of an ass in wine, usually stuff like itunes, samsung's odin, 3u tools, and xiaomi's bootloader unlock tool, most all my other windows apps, either run on legacy hardware i keep around for fun, or has been prodded into working with wine on linux

@libreleah i personally run more hardware using non libre code than i'd like, just because of practical reality, as i need things that suit my needs, like a n100 board for my nas because i need something that sips power and boots a generic iso, and arm boards are still a absolute mess for uefi support and booting generic iso's, or my hp elitebook 845 g7 because i need a reasonably light yet powerful laptop that can run linux and be accessible to me as a factor of it's weight and size

@libreleah honestly yeah, win 11 is a massive case of a few steps forwards, and a LOT of steps backwards, i had the pleasure of talking to a msft dev who works on the codebase to win 11, and under the hood, the architectural changes are well overdue, but it's all let down so much by the cloud dependency with the attempts for forced msft acc's and all the ui changes and such, to the point where i keep a surface pro 7 as a "when i need it" windows device for those 3 or so times a year i need it

@libreleah honestly, yeah, it makes sense for libreboot to treat libre software as the priority, as long as someone who wants windows can get a working and usable install on a libreboot chromebook, even if they are the lowest priority, and is fine, as well it's hopefully a entrypoint, one that might entice people to look past the walled garden of windows and msft, and be tempted to try the world of libre software and operating systems for more than just running a less locked down os on their pc

@libreleah respectfully, no, this idea is stupid, this is how you create masses of people with hatred for libreboot and libre software, and by extension linux/bsd. i won't say you should spoon-feed them, but hostility won't convert them, treat windows as an afterthought sure, heck even discourage windows and nudge towards Linux, but don't lock them out. ultimately if libreboot is code that respects your freedom, it must also respect the user's freedom to install and run non-free os's.

@janethemotherfucker @libreleah you realise, most debian users don't want "$better-thing", we're happy with the debian we use, and like it that way, because it does what we want, how we want, plus notions of all debian stable packages being 2+ years out of date is frankly silly, yes at times it has been that long between releases, but most packages are fairly up to date, and get regular security patches, and many debian users will make use of flatpak for apps they want the current version of

@janethemotherfucker @libreleah there's a reason that many debian users, such as myself choose to use it as their distro of choice, notably that it's reliable, and generally tends to be fairly stable despite lacking the latest features, but also that it's incredibly lightweight (my nas on debian rarely uses more than 1gb of ram) as well as being largely bullshit free as debian doesn't install large amounts of superflous packages and apps instead deffering to the user to choose their preferences

@janethemotherfucker @libreleah not really, stable if anything is more like running ubuntu LTS, but even then, deb stable suits many workflows exceptionally well simply because you don't get random package breakage

@janethemotherfucker @libreleah oh, i wish, i've hit it enough to know, all it takes is one careless push of a broken package and shit can break like heck, and while higher standards help, there is no bulletproof prevention

@janethemotherfucker @libreleah yeah, but that's a hassle, and i'm a lazy catgirl who has a whole pile of old computers to go hiss at