> * I find almost every package I need on parabola repos. Anything that is not > there is usually available in AUR (just need to carefully check licenses and > makepkg files). Never had a problem with "your-freedom" either. Can you give > some examples?
RetroArch is available. Some emulators, in the form of addons, are proprietary, and some are free software. When I tried to install one of the emulators that were free software according to Debian, it gave an error. I later looked in the Parabola PKGBUILD for RetroArch. I saw that they completely removed any connection to the addon repository on RetroArch's website, and they provided no free replacement. They just neutered the software completely. I could not run free ROMs in the emulator, and I could not experimenting with writing my own free ROMs either. If the addon repo for a program is not good, you should provide a free replacement. You shouldn't just rip it out. I don't remember if there were other programs they did this with, but to see what they did in the package build soured me. They prevented me from accessing a free program. > * I don't follow things closely, but it does not seem to me that Parabola > devs are lazy at all. Quite the contrary. Take a look at > https://labs.parabola.nu. All bugs I've encountered are quickly resolved. I never said they were lazy, I'm just afraid Parabola is going to go into disrepair because some major devs left to start their own pet project. > As to the other distros, I have limited experience. I find Debian to be solid > > and can easily be configured to whatever my needs are. I don't want Chromium code to creep in. There is a controversy over whether it is free. > Trisquel is great and better for most gnu/linux newcomers. I enjoy Trisquel's > > community too, but that is unrelated to which other distros I play or work > with, or whether I even use Trisquel. Dogfood. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey
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