it reminds me I’m putting proprietary crap in the machine.

Agreed.

Can be a pain in the ass when the wifi doesn’t work because some proprietary firmware is missing, and the laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port so off you go to buy a usb-eth adaptor.

happened to me too. Lame mediatek doesn’t have drivers for Linux.

I don’t understand, If Pop OS, Nobara, Bazzite can, why not all distros? Is it a philosophical reason to not include proprietary drivers?

But, what about some Distros have NVIDIA Versions, Which come with proprietary Drivers? Like Nobara, Bazzite, Pop OS…?

They don’t have legal issues?

I think its because the country they are based on. I also heard that VLC has lots of codecs (even proprietary ones), because it’s origin country doesn’t restrict them to use proprietary codecs.

this works ok

People said that the new 555 Nvidia drivers works good.

I’m using Mint. It doesn’t install proprietary Nvidia drivers along the system install. But provides a slick Driver manager where you download proprietary Drivers without any hassle. It does include nouveau during install though.

So, it’s just the philosophy of FOSS stopping distros from using proprietary?

Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I’m Out of the Loop.

Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I’m Out of the Loop.

AMchaD

I did for Linus (tech tips). I know it’s not always the case, but I just want to be safe.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Infuriating man.

Just like @SirBoostALot@hear-me.social said,

And boy do those people get pissed off when you don’t just accept their “expert” advice even though they are telling you to do the ONE thing they were requested NOT to suggest (I had actually already tried most of what they had suggested anyway).

You don’t have to be sorry. Stupid people exists everywhere, even on Linux community.

Thank you for your kind words man.

Ik how to remove. But what I want to know is what are possible landmines. Just like when installing Steam uninstalled the entire system.

Are you a mind reader, cause you said everything in my mind exactly as it is.

telling you to do the ONE thing they were requested NOT to suggest

Infuriating stuff.

Thank you for understanding.

Also some other person suggested installing basic debian and then install Cinnamon DE. By doing this, you can get the perks of Cinnamon(updates, kernal updates, software manager etc…) and minimalism of Debian. I don’t know how true it is though. I’m gonna try it on a VM.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll do that.

Thanks for understanding man.

Thank you.

it goes far beyond the essentials. Mint develops a lot of GUIs for the user to be able to configure the system. I think just these plus the in-house Mint core apps would make for a sweet, lightweight and less bloated system that would have real appeal

This is what most people don’t understand for whatever reason. And exactly what I’m talking about.

more work for the Linux Mint team

Agreed

Thanks for understanding man.