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Welcome to libre
A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
Resources
- Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
- Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in
$CURRENT_YEAR, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, NixOS or the many, many other offerings out there.
- Those on Apple Silicon Macs can consult Asahi Linux for available options.
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- Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
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- Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
- Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
- Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft
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teacher teacher can we please use Element, a Matrix Project instead, a part of a federated network of servers which is more capable of carrying on the principals of libre, self-hosting, and learning
alternatively you can log into discord from a web browser
I've been using it in Firefox. I was thinking about installing the Linux package. Is that a bad idea?
This is what I reccomend too, I personally use goofcord
i am not a big discord-head but its my assumption that there's still pretty close parity between the web browser version and the linux package, so i personally don't have a reason to install it.
actually answer your q, no sorry i have zero well-formed reasons why you shouldn't install it, i just feel less icky loading it from browser instead of having it installed on my system. same for skype
In my experience, the ones bundled in distros work okay, but tend to eventually fall behind and stop working.
If you download the .deb from their website, it works well but sometimes, on startup, makes you download and install new one. I assume the .tar.gz version from their website works the same, but with replacing the folder manually.