People always say that the debian installer recommends non-free firmware.
However, whenever I installed it on notebooks with wifi chips dependant on
non-free firmware, it never recommended anything.
The wifi just didn't work, and that's it.
I heard other people here saying the same thing.
Maybe it's more of a rumour than a fact.
Debian doesn't recommend anything (at least the two I used - 7 and 8)
I can confirm, having it installed on several computers and with several
components that would require non-free firmware to function properly, that it
never ever recommended the installation of the proprietary firmware, not
during, not after the installation.
If you really need to use "expert install", there is in my view no problem
whatsoever.
An expert knows what he is doing; offering the possibility to install
non-free software is imo only a problem if unexperienced users end up doing
so by mistake, because they don't know better.
My freedom is not threatened by an offer to install nonfree firmware. I can
just click "no", and that's it.
exactly.
