First of all, let me thank you for your time and information, SuperTramp83. I
am very grateful for your attention.
>Anyway, if you really want to go that way (and that is up to you - nobody
here will shoot you for doing so X_X) what you may do is install Debian,
temporarily add the non-free repo and install the package
firmware-linux-nonfree and then remove the non-free repo from sources.list in
/etc/apt. That way you would have a system that contains **only** the
proprietary firmware for your GPU and everything else would be libre (Debian
is as libre as Trisquel by default - that is if you don't manually add the
nonfree and the contrib repos and install software from those). Mind that I
don't **recommend** you to do this, I just point out that you **can do it if
you decide to do it**.
So basically if I want my computer to function at its full potential, I need
to go the Debian way, and obtain my needed proprietary firmware. I can
understand why you would not recommend that approach, but to be honest, I am
tempted.
Let me ask you this; I fully understand the ethical issue with using
proprietary firmware, however, I am not certain if the use of proprietary
firmware will break my security. I would assume that using Debian with my
computers needed proprietary firmware would still be much better than the old
Windows setup that I am coming from? No? Other than the ethical issue, what
personal computing issues would I have using the proprietary firmware with
Debian?
