Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 27, 2017 9:07 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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I hope Fedora never does this. I don't want proprietary driver soup that is Android, if it can be avoided. I'd rather be careful when selecting hardware.

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Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 27, 2017 14:38 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (1 responses)

I sympathize with this, but it's not Fedora forcing "proprietary driver soup," it's a question of whether we would push an update we know is incompatible with a common user setup.

I'm not arguing for or against it, just noting that the scenario is different than what is suggested by your comment.

There's also a separate argument/discussion around the fact that many users of Fedora do _not_ get to choose their hardware at all. Whether it's because it's work-issued, hand-me-down, or simply a user who is trying to move away from Windows and purchased their hardware before looking to Linux. It is not always as simple as being "careful when selecting hardware."

Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 8:51 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

I know people cannot always pick their hardware, but by installing Fedora, you are basically saying that you want latest free software that works with current Fedora release. If someone wants to jam square pegs into round holes by depending on proprietary drivers, that's their own business.

For instance, I run VMware Horizon on my F26 laptop for work. I understand that this setup may occasionally break. In fact, I had to put some library symlinks in place to get it running at one point. Such is life on the bleeding edge (almost).