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 @civodul @dthompson I don't think hardware vendors have any financial incentive to help us out with this. FSDG distro users are such a small minority of the Linux userbase that we probably don't even show up on their radar. What I'd really like to see is more "by hackers, for hackers" type hardware appear which actually does have open drivers and firmware. Extremely unlikely, but maybe someone could inspire the creation of a well-funded co-op? 12 comments
@daviwil @civodul @dthompson Well to be fair to them, truly free hardware like the MNT reform just isn't suitable for a mainstream device. There's a larger issue that we need to throw so many transistors at modern software that usable CPUs can be made at only a handful of places around the world which keep their IP tightly clutched to their chest. @daviwil @civodul @dthompson Is RISC-V a viable alternative for personal computers? I've heard that RISC-V is a free standard (as in freedom).  @dthompson @daviwil @civodul Losedows (by Microsoft) is dominating in the OS market, so its unlikely to see RISC-V computer to be common until MS decides to support it. We, the free software activists, must make our own computers. have you considered playing with kmonad. With dual key functions you can get modifier keys on any key. I am currently using c and , as dual use control keys https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad |
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@civodul @dthompson I love what Librem and Framework are doing, but if they continue to depend on Intel chipset then they'll probably never work with Linux Libre