Hello from new Trisquel user!
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)
Welcome!
Welcome! By the way, your English is lovely!
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.
Welcome! Greetings from far away Indonesia. I use Trisquel 11 too.
Best regards,
Malsasa
Welcome to this Forum!
It's all about freedom!
I am a member!
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.
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!
Hello and welcome.
I am a member!
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.
I'm also a long term Trisquel user here, and I am also Transgender (and Nonbinary/Genderqueer as well). My pronouns are they/them.
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?
@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]
| Attachment | Size |
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| NonFreeEULA.txt | 41.16 KB |
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!
Very interesting articles.
What's a good alternative to discord? I've heard of Revolt but haven't used it yet.
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.
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.
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.
Welcome
>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