On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 09:08:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Debian also allows proprietary software such as NVIDIA drivers, it is just that they are in the non-free repository instead of the free repository. Non-free is not available by default in Debian but it is there. I use it all the time for NVIDIA drivers and some other stuff.
The support is clearly not as good. I got into an argument few month ago with some debian maintainers. The topic was that it was impossible to compile wine on a machine with the nvidia drivers. I came up with the issue, and even a fix, a receive basically a GTFO, we don't care about making a soft to run non free software using non free driver.
I took several month (maybe more than a year) for the issue to be solved, in a very similar manner to what I proposed in the first place. I'm not the only one that had similar issues.
Debian is not per se against non free, but some maintainers are, and it does matter.
