You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
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> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]
>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.
> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?
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Jackie 🍉🏳️⚧️☭
in reply to ax6761 • • •Shit like this makes my blood boil.
The open source Nix-like ecosystem (including GNU/Linux, Chimera Linux, *BSD, and etc) is for everyone, and this whole "erm actshulee I use arch btw and it's gnu/Linux" is why people don't really feel that way about it