Recommendation: For An OS with proprietary firmware support
Good Day, I currently have a Libiquity Taurinus X200 that's libre-booted with Trisquel 9.
However, my issue is that I have this brand new laptop sitting around with Windows 10 on it.
So I am seeking recommendations from the community here on a OS that I can configure to use the same software as Trisquel however it has proprietary firmware which I must use. I've tried Trisquel, Debian without the nonfree stuff. So I wish to use it without buying extra dongles. I thought about trying Gentoo, Slackware or even FreeBSD. Opinions, thoughts, ideas?
Hello, I think you could use any linux distributions. All you need is the linux-firmware package and an original linux kernel, not linux-libre. You could build a kernel with firmware with trisquel too! And boot with that.
>"So I wish to use it without buying extra dongles."
It only needs one dongle for wifi. And that can be a cheap, super-mini USB wifi adaptor. Get that and use Trisquel, it's so better than other distros.
Your best option is, to buy used Atheros card, will be about 5$, and replace your with Atheros one. The best solution.
If you use proprietary BIOS/UEFI, it might have some whitelist for "not approved" wifi cards. I seriously recommend to flash Libreboot.
Please do not distribute, recommend, or support non-free software here - https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines