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amend guix complaint
Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>
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- rant
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<div class="warning">
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[EDIT(2022-02-10 12:47 EST): I apparently misread part of the GNU #guix channel
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rules and made an unreasonable assumption that violators of the rules could be
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banned. I have amended a conversation fragment accordingly. My intent was not to
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lie, but to point out that some users actually need stuff that nonguix provides
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but they just have to know that it exists in the first place.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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</div>
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Or: Ubuntu gives the user more agency about how they want to use their computer
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than fully libre GNU/Linux distros ever can.
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[But wait, isn't there that one nonguix project that allows you to install a
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normal kernel and Steam?](conversation://Mara/hmm)
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[Yeah, but talk about that in the main #guix channel and you risk getting
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banned. GG. You just have to know that it exists and you can't learn that it
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exists without knowing someone that tells you that it exists under the table.
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This means that knowledge of the nonguix project (which may contain tools that
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make it possible to use Guix at all) is hidden from users that may need it
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because it allows users to install proprietary software. This limits user
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freedom from being able to use their computer how they want by making it a
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[Yeah, but talk about that in the main #guix channel and you get told to not
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talk about it. You just have to know that it exists and you can't learn that it
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exists without knowing someone that tells you that it exists under the table,
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like some kind of underground software drug dealer giving you a hit of wifi card
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firmware. This means that knowledge of the nonguix project (which may contain
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tools that make it possible to use Guix at all) is hidden from users that may
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need it because it allows users to install proprietary software. This limits
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user freedom from being able to use their computer how they want by making it a
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potentially untrustable underground software den instead of something that can
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be properly handled upstream without having to place trust in too many
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places.](conversation://Cadey/angy)
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