Canonical's Abandoned Free Software Ubuntu Distro

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• BTW: If you like this kind of content then you should consider donating to the Internet Archive, they do such a great job preserving information needed for these kind of videos with their Wayback Machine, and they depend on the donations quite a lot. And if you like this kind of content you should obviously also consider supporting Brodie through the links in the description. (I don't know why my last comment got deleted after adding that supporting Brodie part, so re-posting. EDIT: I think it was the "P-word" because I had to remove it to get this through).

• It's important that we know that a fully 'free' distro is basically impossible because it should be possible and I hope these guys keep going until we make the changes necessary for it to be possible.

• I use Trisquel, it's a fully libre distro, everything works well, maybe because my hardware is a bit old, I really like freedom

• Some of this FSF purity stuff is a GNUisance.

• Ultra-orthodox and ideologically pure. That makes me smile. The world sometimes needs canaries in the coal mine. Do your thing, guys. Remain vigilant. And one day you might be able to say that you have been warning about disaster X all along and the rest of us just didn't see. Whatever X may be.

• Ha ha ha, that logo. It would of been better if instead of a fist the hand was making the metal "devil horns" sign.

• Debian ships with blobs you could opt for Foss but since they offer with closed software (and now ship even by default in V12) it's not endorsed

• I’ve been enjoying dual booting EndeavourOS on my PC. Though Windows keeps not wanting to to share 😂

• I remember many, many years ago i was using BLAG for a while, an entirely free software distro which worked perfectly with the laptop I was using at the time. Unfortunately, BLAG has been discontinued for a long time now, but it was a rather cool distro back then.

• Ubuntu Pro was the last straw for me, going back to Arch for desktop and Debian for server

• FSF is a meme. HURD is a meme. Richard Motherf**king Stallman is a meme. It wasn't always true, but damn has this unhinged fanatic done great harm to his own brand. Mostly through hypocrisy, inconsistency, and double standards. Like every nutbag fanatic seems to be for some reason. Funny how that works out.

• This makes me sad. Gnubuntu would've been the perfect name for such a distro. The logo could've been an open hand coming to slap you in the face.

• It always bemuses me when they say it's to 'protect user freedom', when true user freedom is being free to run what software works best for them… even if it's proprietry!

  It's interesting though, to see these distributions that I've never heard of before, like gNewSense. 🙂

• 1:19 Brodie is in 3024 already (is Wayland finished?)

• I use Gentoo Linux btw

• Using Nobara 39 here, Cant escape some non-free software in this day and age, but you can actively minimize it while maintaining a reasonable online QoL. And let's be real, I like video games so I need my Steam / Heroic and Lutris!

• Why does everyone shit on FSF distros? There's nothing wrong with them, and yes, it works on my machine. Even wifi. (Atheros)

• I need it to work, tf its proprietary or not. Try a full free distro and you find yourself handicapped.

• fsf having issues with trademark logos proves to me how out of touch the fsf is. Like protesting with libre software is already kind of a virtue signal, but jeez

• "maybe you run a free software distro now" LOL

• remember when we still had to install adobe flash plugins? Pepperidge farm remembers..

• A talk about GNUME would be nice!
  Great vid.

• That logo looks like what a kink focused Ubuntu derivative might use.

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