GNUfanaticism

>HN is for curious conversation—which rules out $X-fanaticism for pretty much any X.

My name is irrelevant to the contents of this post. I believe I said nothing wrong, nor did I intend to start a flamewar or oppose diversity. Promoting free software over proprietary software will be a reoccurring theme to my posts but it looks like that ended already if my privileges are revoked.

>It’s time for Richard Stallman to go.

>We need more leaders of color, women, LGBTQ representation, and others besides.

The FSF is dying. What we need is women, people of color, minorities, and other people who have never played a major part in contributing, spreading or practicing free software ethos to lead the movement.

There is nothing inherently wrong with diversity, but this is an attempt to spread an agenda, not save the Free Software Foundation.

A character like Richard Stallman is and have been a necessity for the movement to be what it is. We cannot let people of weak character lead the movement. We must reject non-free, proprietary software, not fall into a spiral of pragmatism until we are OSS.

I can't speak for laptops, but I strongly doubt any claims about drivers on desktop GNU/Linux. It's a common talking point but I believe it is mostly parroting. Anything I have plugged into my PC for the past few years has worked right out of the box. Installing Nvidia drivers is a common complaint, but it has never been more than an apt/pacman/xbps-install away for me.

And now you're stuck in a proprietary ecosystem. Of course you should avoid Apple.