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Marxism and FLOSS. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think that a Marxist society should allow for 0 proprietary software, and instead support for everything in free and open source decentralized technology.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The common bases of linux distros are:

Debian: known for stability but not fully up to date, uses apt-get as a package manager.

Ubuntu: Based on debian, but more up to date, and supports more proprietary hardware and software (not that debian can't do what ubuntu does with a little tweaking).

Arch: Bleeding edge up to date, can theoretically be unstable. uses pacman as a package manager.

After the base some people differentiate from the base os by changing the default programs installed (often this is including or excluding proprietary software), desktop environment (gnome, KDE, cinnamon, xfce), have different programs in the repository, or have a different installation experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is all very helpful, thanks.