On 16/05/13 21:40, cyberhawk wrote:
I don't want to offend anyone, but we should not be helping people run Windows alongside GNU/Linux or give any kind of support for Windows. This has been a tradition of these forum/mailing list for quite some time, I assume since the beginning.
I disagree, a little bit. We shouldn't be supporting Windows specifically. But we should be helping people dual-boot. The fact that it is installed alongside a proprietary OS is just a detail. The steps for dual-booting alongside any other proprietary or libre OS are similar.
The real solution for any problem when Windows is affecting the installation of Trisquel is format the drive and install Trisquel only. It's unfortunate if someone has to use non-free software for anything, but in such cases it is always important to state our cause and explain, that non-free software is bad and should be removed in order to restore full control over the owners PC.
I agree that this is what we should be encouraging.
