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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, Gentoo, Guix or the many, many 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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Download Linux Mint Button (linuxmint.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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Rufus to write it onto a 4 GB or more flash drive.

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[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded Linux Mint and installed it in my laptop last week, and it's been honestly flawless.

Important tip: linux installs inevitably implode from time to time, as in "I installed something and now I don't have a GUI". Linux Mint comes with a cool recovery utility called something like Time Shift or Time Machine. Two clicks through its user interface and it will set itself up to make snapshots of your system every few days / week so that you can easily restore it back to when it worked.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Congrats on the switch, and yes that's a very important tip. Always have backups and make sure your backups have backups.

I like that Mint really cares about these things and makes it easy for the user to set them up.