So I've been using FreeBSD in the past and didn't have much time to play with it to understand everything. At that time I had no idea what libre(free) software was and now that I looked into it I agree with the idea that we should all have the freedom to run the software for any purpose, study it, make copies and sharing with others.
I really like the idea of knowing what you're running on your computer and learn how it works, that's pretty much what got me interested in computers in the first place. We can also create a dependence to some nonfree software. Social medias are a good example as we need it to contact important people. Also when you run nonfree software you don't exactly know what it's doing so it could be running malicious code without you knowing.I'm seeing more free software these days and that's great.
So yeah the reason I've included GNU/Linux and FreeBSD (and other BSD) in the title is that there are many GNU/Linux distributions that are running on nonfree software or recommending it to their users. Many GNU/Linux distro contain blobs along with FreeBSD and the others. I think this is why the Free Software Foundation don't recommend FreeBSD. I really like the FreeBSD operating system the way it works but for that reason I'd probably lean more towards a more free operating system and GNU/Linux have many of them.
So what are your thought on free software, are you okay with have blobs if it's for the convenience of having better driver support? Also I accept everyone's opinion on that, I don't mean to start some debates.
I really like the idea of knowing what you're running on your computer and learn how it works, that's pretty much what got me interested in computers in the first place. We can also create a dependence to some nonfree software. Social medias are a good example as we need it to contact important people. Also when you run nonfree software you don't exactly know what it's doing so it could be running malicious code without you knowing.I'm seeing more free software these days and that's great.
So yeah the reason I've included GNU/Linux and FreeBSD (and other BSD) in the title is that there are many GNU/Linux distributions that are running on nonfree software or recommending it to their users. Many GNU/Linux distro contain blobs along with FreeBSD and the others. I think this is why the Free Software Foundation don't recommend FreeBSD. I really like the FreeBSD operating system the way it works but for that reason I'd probably lean more towards a more free operating system and GNU/Linux have many of them.
So what are your thought on free software, are you okay with have blobs if it's for the convenience of having better driver support? Also I accept everyone's opinion on that, I don't mean to start some debates.