On 07/20/2013 04:33 AM, [email protected] wrote:
This isn't meant as troll bait or to start a flame war, it's a serious question. I want to used Arch Linux but I seen it doesn't comply with FSF. Is there a way to make it free? Also... if you guys can give me a compelling reason to go free-software only, also tell me what FSF qualified distro I can use that has KDE. I love KDE, I must have it, lol.
Parabola is a completely free distro based on Arch Linux. I believe you can use KDE on Parabola, but if you are just looking for KDE, Trisquel is also compatible with it.
As for a compelling reason to go free-software only, proprietary software is known to have malicious features that are well-hidden from the users. With free-software, anyone can edit, monitor, and review source code to make sure there are no invasions of privacy, tracking features, or any other terrible features that spy on the user. Even if you don't know how to read the code, free-software lets you distribute the software to anyone so that they can review code so that you can be sure. For reasons like this you pretty much never have to worry about viruses either.
