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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.

That's the entire post, there's nothing else. Feel free to ask any questions.

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not really bothered either, and it's not the first time someone has called me that (not in jest either).

I ultimately dont think this is the right conversation to have... At this point. I was more thinking of the freedom ladder of the FSF, the goal is to give people the tools to further liberate themselves, but we can't expect people to be near the top of the ladder from the get go or we'll never see them climb. I also never thought about free software when installing my first copy of Linux mint nearly 3 years ago, I just hated microsoft with a passion and now I'm here.

This is a Linux mint download button, and that's all it needs to be after the Windows 10 EOL that threatens to create millions of devices of e-waste. We need to meet people where they're at rather than where we want them to (eventually) be.

If you want to have political conversations about this further you can always DM me, but I don't think this is a fruitful conversation to have here when we want to grow in members.