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Big fail for Debian to enable them by default. They could have kept the questions as before "We found this hardware that needs non-free, do you want to use it?"

Big fail for Debian to enable them by default. They could have kept the questions as before "We found this hardware that needs non-free, do you want to use it?" Otherwise this is catering for the new security chips like Microsoft Pluton or something... It is sad that they prefer to go for easy instead of keep putting pressure for companies to improve their hardware I will put a reminder to check Debian popularity in a year's time. My bet is it will go down, most desktop people used Debian for the schizophrenic thin line they toed with Freedom Software. Otherwise any other distribution is more up to date and usable for a modern desktop/laptop, this small change will do no difference

creatonez 4y ago
> They could have kept the questions as before "We found this hardware that needs non-free, do you want to use it?" This is exactly what they are doing. It will be disableable in grub, too, if you want to prevent the firmware from being used entirely.
- guilhas 4y ago
  > The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by default where the system determines that they are required, but where possible we will include ways for users to disable this at boot https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 Lets hope so, but it doesn't look like to me, reading the proposal Maybe it is a matter of interpretation