On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:16:08PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > aitor said on Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:28:59 +0200 > > >Hi Steve, > > > >On 14/4/21 15:02, Steve Litt wrote: > >> I think free software purist snobs drive more people back to > >> Windows than cleanse people of their non-free ways. > >The adversary of the fsf isn't Windows, but the propietary software in > >general wherever it may come from. > >In this context, whether a propietary piece of software is used in one > >or other environment doesn't make it less propietary. > > Hi Aitor, > > Yes, but the end result of enforcing free software purism is a lot of > those so exposed give up and install Windows. I don't blame them. A few > times I've found it *really* hard to install when the installer just > says "you might need nonfree drivers, but them on a thumb drive." > > Which drivers? How do I mount the thumb drive within the installation? > In what thumb drive directory do I put them?
Exactly. I've encountered this once in a while; fortunately the Linux installation worked without those drivers, although some less critical pieces of hardware didn't. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful > Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
