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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, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, NixOS or the many, many other offerings out there.

Those on Apple Silicon Macs can consult Asahi Linux for available options.

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. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
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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Last ditch effort to find a Linux distro that works well for a Snapdragon Processor (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by ratboy@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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I have a Microsoft Surface 7 laptop and reaaaally want to try Linux, but everywhere I've looked seems to say that Linux just isn't there yet, with maybe the exception of Arch. I've also seen that Ubuntu is working on it but a ton of stuff still doesn't work (keyboard, volume, Bluetooth).

Can someone tell me I'm wrong and that there is something out there that will work for my laptop? Im not a programmer and know pretty much nothing about coding so....I am terrified of Arch.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point, but for exotic hardware, rolling release distros like Arch or Gentoo will be among the first to actually implement the updates / patches needed to make this hardware work. You typically will need to wait a bit longer for it to work on things like Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian. It is especially nice on Gentoo, because packages have multiple versions available and you can make very granular decisions about what runs on the bleeding edge and what runs on stable, while on most distros mixing versions is unsupported and you need to choose between "stable," "testing," or "unstable" across the board.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Oh for sure, i think the combination of new to Linux plus exotic hardware is a no go