Ah, I forgot about that. Yes, that’s a pretty big deal. Thanks for pointing that out. Debian have always been pretty purist about non-free software, to the detriment of new users.
To be fair, back then Ubuntu was basically just “Debian preconfigured for desktop with a check-box in the installer to include non-free stuff”.
Debian today feels like old Ubuntu, and Ubuntu today feels like a distro made by a corporation desperately trying to enshittify Linux.
Ah, I forgot about that. Yes, that’s a pretty big deal. Thanks for pointing that out. Debian have always been pretty purist about non-free software, to the detriment of new users.
To be fair, back then Ubuntu was basically just “Debian preconfigured for desktop with a check-box in the installer to include non-free stuff”.
Debian today feels like old Ubuntu, and Ubuntu today feels like a distro made by a corporation desperately trying to enshittify Linux.