This is such a great summary! Thank you very much Jean Louis for your contribution. :-)
Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes: > * Marcus Wilson <[email protected]> [2020-01-27 21:07]: >> Is this too advanced for the new user? >> >> [1]https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Debian > > WikiHow has spying scripts with information being shared to Amazon, > DoubleClick, Google, etc. I would not recommend to a new user of free > software a website that spies on them. And I would tell why, and > explain it why, which I do all the time. Often people ask me if I have > Whatsapp - I give them reasons why I don't have, first it is > proprietary software, I don't know and cannot know what it is doing > with my information, second Whatsapp has thousands of staff members, > and I don't know even one of them, why should I entrust them with my > data? I don't trust somebody on street to give them my data, I cannot > trust to Whatsapp. > > The first website to present to users is GNU: https://www.gnu.org/ > > and then what is Free Software: > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > The GNU website does not spy on people, and does not use non-free > Javascript software. > > Installing any operating system is not an easy task. > > Yet the FSF endorsed free operating system distributions do have their > installation instructions. > > PureOS: > https://tracker.pureos.net/w/installation_guide/ > > Trisquel: > https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/setup > > Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre: > https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:guide:installation&redirect=1 > > Parabola: > https://wiki.parabola.nu/Main_Page > > I would recommend exlusively FSF endorsed GNU operating system > distributions, such as those above, or listed here: > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html > > Debian is distributing non-free software from their servers, so when > helping somebody to get free software, it would be good to tell them > about the truly free operating system distributions, and why they are > endorsed, and why some of them are not endorsed. See: > https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html > > Teaching people about free software is part of my personal duty. Thus > without teaching them the differences, I am not installing anything on > their computers. Person shall know why is using free software, and > should not just target that "new software" as "gratis" software for > reasons that it need not pay for it, or for reasons that there is > plethora of software that one cannot otherwise get on Windows. Those > are common problems. > > The first and main reason to install that new software shall be reason > that it is free software, that user can study and upgrade it easily, > get support from other people, that user can become eventually > programmer, and can contribute to development of such free software, > and other reasons explained on > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > And if we speak of free software, then they shall be told what is GNU > and how GNU started. Thus reference to main GNU website is of highest > importance. > >> Sometimes people might find the task of making a bootable USB drive or >> CD or DVD a bit too dificult. In that case you could also point them at >> vendors of installation media. > > In general, operating system installation is not easy task. > > Jean > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
