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proprietary software is horrible software you should never use; including

proprietary operatings systems most people use like MacOS or MS windows.

When I tell people about the horrible actions of MS windows to people,

usually they start a unneeded fight or say windows is better, it's

not. Windows is a horrible operating system which tells you your hardware

is "monitored" which they never explain WHO it is monitored by.

MS windows is also one of the most bloated operating systems i've

used. It includes over 20 pieces of non libre software preinstalled, and

a uninstallable browser "Microsoft Edge" which is just a google

chrome copy from Microsoft; And the amount of ram MS windows uses is

horrible; using over 70 percent memory on idle. Now at this point if youre

still reading youre wondering (What operating system do i use then?) ill

list a few here

Parabola GNU/linux-libre

Parabola is one of the operating systems i will always recommend; comes

with a gui installer with lxde and a maunal "arch way" installer;

and is also based on arch so it has the upsides of the AUR and pacman; but

parabola will only work on fully libre hardware as it uses the linux-libre

kernel (something like a thinkpad thats librebooted.)

Artix GNU/linux

This is also arch based; which is basically arch without systemd and a gui

installer for all the main desktops (xfce kde and cinnamon are some) and

it is the operating system i use due to the laptop i use not having wifi

support from parabola.

Trisquel GNU/linux-libre

this is the only Ubuntu / Debian based distro i will recommend, due to

Debian allowing non free software and Ubuntu being a "newbie"

user bait which has spied on its users(https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CP8CNp-

vksc). Comes with installers for mate, cinnamon, and kde and is basically

the Debian version of Parabola.

Hyperbola

Hyperbola, like Parabola is a distro based off arch but also has security

from Debian and is LTS like ubuntu. Hyperbola also has plans of forking the

Openbsd kernel to use instead of Linux-libre, personally i don't care

if they switch to a openbsd based kernel or stay with linux-libre; as long

as the operating system is free; i'll use it.

Links to each distro here:

https://www.parabola.nu/

https://www.hyperbola.info/

https://trisquel.info/

https://artixlinux.org/

Now to the distros you shouldn't ever use. Most of this will be from

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu maintains specific repositories of nonfree software, and Canonical

expressly promotes and recommends nonfree software under the Ubuntu name

in some of their distribution channels. Ubuntu offers the option to install

only free packages, which means it also offers the option to install

nonfree packages too. In addition, the version of Linux, the kernel,

included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.

Ubuntu appears to permit commercial redistribution of exact copies with

the trademarks; removal of the trademarks is required only for modified

versions. That is an acceptable policy for trademarks. However, the same

page, further down, makes a vague and ominous statement about “Ubuntu

patents,” without giving enough details to show whether that constitutes

aggression or not.

That page spreads confusion by using the misleading term “intellectual

property rights,” which falsely presumes that trademark law and patent law

and several other laws belong in one single conceptual framework. Use of

that term is harmful, without exception, so after making a reference to

someone else's use of the term, we should always reject it. However,

that is not a substantive issue about Ubuntu as a GNU/Linux distribution.

Arch

Arch has no policy against distributing nonfree software through their

normal channels, and nonfree blobs are shipped with their kernel, Linux.

Debian

Debian's Social Contract states the goal of making Debian entirely

free software, and Debian conscientiously keeps nonfree software out of

the official Debian system. However, Debian also maintains a repository

of nonfree software. According to the project, this software is “not

part of the Debian system,” but the repository is hosted on many of the

project's main servers, and people can readily find these nonfree

packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki.

There is also a “contrib” repository; its packages are free, but some of

them exist to load separately distributed proprietary programs. This too is

not thoroughly separated from the main Debian distribution.

Debian is the only common non-endorsed distribution to keep nonfree blobs

out of its main distribution. However, the problem partly remains. The

nonfree firmware files live in Debian's nonfree repository, which is

referenced in the documentation on debian.org, and the installer in some

cases recommends them for the peripherals on the machine.

In addition, some of the free programs that are officially part of Debian

invite the user to install some nonfree programs. Specifically, the Debian

versions of Firefox and Chromium suggest nonfree plug-ins to install into

them.

Debian's wiki also includes pages about installing nonfree firmware.

Thanks for reading to the end! :D

If youre a windows user reading this, Use one of the free distros here!

Or if you use one of the non free distros ive stated here or one of the

other non free distros on gnu.org, switch to the free version of your

distro! (arch to parabola etc; parabola comes with guides to switch from

arch easily.)