On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 00:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Steven Robbins wrote: > > > > Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > > Personally, I'd even go for option 4, so that other drivers are covered > > > too (the general advice that can be found on the internet for users > > > with nvidia hardware seems to be: "avoid Debian, go Ubuntu/Mint/etc", > > > which is just a sad state of affairs). But option 5 is already a great > > > improvement upon the status quo. > > > > Agree! > > > > The original post did mention video cards, but I'm left unsure whether the > > non-free stuff in the NVidia case, for example, would fall into "firmware" > > (hence included) or "drivers". If the latter, my sense is that Option 5 > > was > > intended to be narrowly focused and exclude such drivers. I'd rather > > support > > a wider focus that would include drivers -- basically any "non-free > > hardware > > support package". So if Option 5 is narrow and Option 4 is wide-open "non- > > free" maybe there's room for an option in between? > > I have no desire to add a wider set of packages from non-free onto our > media, I'm afraid. I'm entirely focused on firmware and **not** > drivers. As and when we start to draft a GR to formalise what the > project wants, feel free to add an option for that too but I > personally wouldn't expect it to gain much traction.
Fair enough - making the firmware situation better is definitely more important and urgent, and worth doing by itself. Focusing on that sounds like a good strategy. I do not intend to propose alternative options. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi