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I think support for non free is a major reason for people to chose Ubuntu over Debian, specially with cheaper laptops that come with non standard chipsets. Of
by meitham 4y ago
I think support for non free is a major reason for people to chose Ubuntu over Debian, specially with cheaper laptops that come with non standard chipsets. Of course Ubuntu also comes with stronger marketing and people generally (sadly) prefer having a corporation behind software than a charitable organisation.
- pabs3 4y agoThere are numerous corporations paying contributors or employees to work on Debian, and supporting Debian in other ways, Canonical for example, or the Debian partners and Debian consultants and most of the LTS team comes from Freexian. https://www.debian.org/partners/ https://www.debian.org/partners/ https://www.debian.org/consultants/ https://www.debian.org/consultants/ https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Certification https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Certification https://wiki.debian.org/ExternalEntities https://wiki.debian.org/ExternalEntities https://www.debian.org/intro/help#organizations https://www.debian.org/intro/help#organizations
- kasabali 4y agoThis decision only affects non-free firmware blobs. Proprietary drivers like Nvidia or Broadcom still have to be installed separately. So I don't think it'll help much in that regard.