Hello from new Trisquel user!

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Monika05PL
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Beigetreten: 08/23/2023

Hello everyone I'm Monika, this is my first post on the Trisquel Forum
My first GNU/Linux distro was GNU/Linux Mint in 2013 year
Two years ago i was more and more, angry about non-free software, later I used Kdenlive, Libreoffice and more.

In this year, I decided to install Trisquel 11 GNU/Linux on my laptop.

This is my first fully 100% Free Software GNU/Linux Distribution.

(Mostly i write in Polish, sorry if there're some problems with my English)

Magic Banana

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Beigetreten: 07/24/2010

Welcome!

stearinljus lys
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Beigetreten: 06/01/2019

Welcome!

Sunny Day
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Beigetreten: 01/05/2023

Welcome! By the way, your English is lovely!

PublicLewdness
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Beigetreten: 03/15/2020

Welcome ! I also started out on Linux Mint albeit in 2015 to your 2013. When I first started on Linux and for years after I had no idea that the standard Linux kernel wasn't totally free. I found Trisquel in the last couple years and have made it my daily driver on most of my systems (soon to be all). Enjoy your stay.

Malsasa
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Beigetreten: 12/01/2016

Welcome! Greetings from far away Indonesia. I use Trisquel 11 too.

Best regards,

Malsasa

Pablo G

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Beigetreten: 05/16/2012

Welcome to this Forum!
It's all about freedom!

Dave_Hunt

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Beigetreten: 09/19/2011

Welcome to this forum and to Trisquel! My first experience with the GNU gui was an early Ubuntu. I'd used command-line-only GNU distros back in the 90's.

Jonathan Matt Gresham
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Beigetreten: 07/24/2023

On 23/09/22 03:11AM, name at domain wrote:
> Welcome to this forum and to Trisquel! My first experience with the GNU gui
> was an early Ubuntu. I'd used command-line-only GNU distros back in the
> 90's.
>

Hey! Welcome :-)

You used GNU command-line-only distros in the 90's!???

You must have superb experience with GNU!

Ardea
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Beigetreten: 05/16/2022

Hello and welcome.

Dave_Hunt

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Beigetreten: 09/19/2011

Yep! old Slackware and Debian. No gui until Orca became available. My early experience wasn't continuous. There were starts and stops. There was a Windows period in there, too.

megurineturilli
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Beigetreten: 01/10/2012

I'm also a long term Trisquel user here, and I am also Transgender (and Nonbinary/Genderqueer as well). My pronouns are they/them.

EffingComputer
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Beigetreten: 07/17/2023

Witamy! :)
Linux mint was also my distro of choice when Ubuntu changed from Gnome2. What made you so angry about non-free software?
What are your thoughts on Trisquel and using 100% free software so far?

Monika05PL
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Beigetreten: 08/23/2023

@EffingComputer
> What made you so angry about non-free software?
Spyware features built in non-free software [1], using DRM restrictions [2]
long EULA's with many restrictions how software can't be used [NonFreeEULA.txt]

> What are your thoughts on Trisquel and using 100% free software so far?
Trisquel GNU/Linux is my favourite distribution, it runs very smoothly on my laptop,
and has a lot of great software, the free software games work great too.

Links
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord [1]
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html [2]

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Sunny Day
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Beigetreten: 01/05/2023

Thank you for the links! I share your thoughts very very closely!

My previous system (bitten fruit) was hacked and in a weird way I thank the hackers for making it clear to me that non-free software is not fit for purpose. After that, dropping everything and making the move to software freedom became a lot easier, no matter the learning curve.

I couldn't agree more about Trisquel, is my favourite distro too!

EffingComputer
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Beigetreten: 07/17/2023

Very interesting articles.
What's a good alternative to discord? I've heard of Revolt but haven't used it yet.

Magic Banana

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Beigetreten: 07/24/2010

I have heard of Discourse: https://www.discourse.org

Given the name, I guess it wants to replace Discord, but I have never used it.

Onsemeliot
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Beigetreten: 09/09/2011

The FSF uses Discourse as discussion solution for members. And I think it is neat. But I refused Discord from the start. So I can't really compare it. Trisquel is great. I enjoy Trisquel mini on very dated hardware like about 20 year old ThinkPads.

strypey
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Beigetreten: 05/14/2015

EffingComputer:
> What's a good alternative to discord? I've heard of Revolt but haven't used it yet.

Revolt provides a UI modelled on Discord, so it's a pretty good drop-in replacement. But like Discord, it's centralised. People on different hosted instances of Revolt cannot communicate with each other, let alone with people on any other chat room platform.

For a decentralised replacement for Discord, I'd suggest trying some matrix apps. Most people use Element but there are many others, for a range of OS and the web. I have suggested implementing matrix (or XMPP) to the Revolt devs, but there isn't much interest yet:

https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/discussions/469#discussioncomment-5976729

Magic Banana:
> I have heard of Discourse: https://www.discourse.org . Given the name, I guess it wants to replace Discord

Discord is a chat room system, like a glorified IRC server. Discourse is web forum software, like phpBB. Examples;

https://discuss.coding.social/
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/

According to their Wikipedia articles, Discourse is actually one year older than Discord.

WizardHemp
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Beigetreten: 11/28/2021

Welcome

openmind
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Beigetreten: 08/30/2023

>For a decentralised replacement for Discord, I'd suggest trying some matrix apps.

I think you will change your mind after reading this: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/

Hello and welcome, by the way