Post #1110759

2026-04-06 12:27 UTC

How would anyone place a 100% community driven distribution like Debian in such a cage? There's no monetary leverage, the community is truly international, so local laws don't apply ..... Please note that it's also one of the most prolific distributions, and the foundation p.e. for *buntu. If you're living in an oppressive jurisdiction, your employer might obviously not allow you to use a truly free operating system, but that's hardly Linux's fault. So if your favorite distribution is starting bullshit, just switch to the next one, there are literally thousands of them. That's why "Year of the Linux desktop" is confusing: it's "year of steamOs" or "year of *buntu", probably even "year of Debian", but most certainly never "year of the nixos desktop". You have choice. Use it.

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@TheIPW@lemmy.ml 2026-04-06 12:33

My real worry isn't that Debian will cave, but that the services we use every day—banks, government sites, DRM-heavy media—will start checking for a "compliant" kernel. If those "invisible borders" get built, you might have a truly free OS that's effectively useless for 90% of the modern web. It's not about the distro failing; it's about the "compliant" versions becoming the only key to the door. We have the choice now, but the gap between "free" and "functional" is definitely getting wider.

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@0x0@lemmy.zip 2026-04-06 13:14

> How would anyone place a 100% community driven distribution like Debian in such a cage? By getting the Debian deciding body to approve systemd a while back, for starters. It's apparently very easy.

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@kuai@friendica.eskimo.com 2026-04-06 12:39

[@halfdane](https://piefed.social/u/halfdane) This seems to be about more control, profits and data harvesting. Long live MX Linux.

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