Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to use only FSF software?

[Roeplay]

For the future, us free software advocates remain hopeful that it will become  
even easier for any novice user to install without hardware  
incompatibilities. That GNU/Linux has come so far in spite of so many  
obstacles is already awesome. Proper software drivers and firmware for video  
cards (except Intel) and the majority of wireless adapters remain the  
greatest obstacles to issue-free adoption of our operating system. I have not  
lost hope that someday, it will not be uncommon for computer stores to sell  
computers with GNU/Linux preinstalled.

Personally, I don't run any non-free software on my computer whatsoever. That  
level of commitment required me to purchase a compatible wireless adapter for  
~$35. But a computer shouldn't have to do that to make his system run for  
whatever purpose he require (he also shouldn't have to pay hundreds of  
dollars for an operating system or an office suite, but that's another  
story). The hardware manufacturers, if they pretend to ethical, they will  
provide Free Software firmware and drivers for their devices, so that anyone  
is free to learn from them and improve upon them, passing on the improvements  
to all others in the community. If large numbers of us don't stand up for  
such freedoms, change will not occur. That's why we, knowing better, must  
push for free software across the board, rather than distributing non-free  
software as a matter of convenience or marketability, as Ubuntu, Fedora,  
Mint, Debian (to an extent), and many others have done.