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  • Id say around 80% since I use a lot of foss programs and only use linux/android/openwrt/brother printers. The other 20% is random proprietary stuff like steam I guess to be generous.

  • A good 90% I'd say. All my devices run Linux (NixOS laptop, Ubuntu server, LineageOS phone).

    Non-FOSS stuff:

    • AMD GPU in my Framework 16 laptop means the only unfree package on my laptop is Steam.
    • The proprietary apps I do run on my phone are TooGoodToGo and my bank as I'm not aware of alternatives.
    • I wear a Pebble Time Steel smartwatch, also not aware of any alternatives.
    • PS5 controller firmware has no replacement.

    I don't browse the surface web a lot and when I do I tend to disable JS, so I avoid most of the nonfree JS. I have no social media accounts besides Mastodon, Matrix, and Lemmy, which are all free :)

    As an extension, all my close family runs Linux on their computers, as it ended up being lower maintenance than setting them up with Windows when time came to upgrade.

  • Got multiple machines, but I think my most FOSS setup is a corebooted Thinkpad X230. The ME firmware was stripped, leaving it non-functional after the initialization. I replaced the WiFi card with an Atheros one that doesn't require non-free firmware. The GPU is by Intel Ivy Bridge, so no need for proprietary driver. Currently running Debian on it.

    With that said, there are some components I couldn't get by:

    • the EC firmware is pretty much a blackbox, even though I was able to unlock some part to make it work with aftermarket batteries
    • the graphic ROM may still be proprietary (gonna have to recheck what my machine got currently) -- FOSS is an option as well but with less support
    • even though non-functional, the ME is still on -- god knows what this thing does exactly
    • CPU microcode

    The rest of the components are pretty well-documented by the community if not by the OEMs themselves.

    I would put 95% for this specific setup. However, if counting everything I got, not even close, as I need some proprietary components for living.

    For example, my company gave me a newer Thinkpad to do work, which thankfully I got to install Linux on. I still have to run enterprise stuff from time to time, most of which are far from FOSS.

    And don't get me started on tax form submission.

  • It's just the firmware, my work-necessary programs, and steam.

    I love arch, but i'm planning on moving to atomic fedora eventually, but I use a bunch of niche things because i'm an early adopter

    i'll switch to fedora atomic when pwvucontrol, tofi, hyprland, hyprland-autoname-workspaces, citrix workspace (work necessary), notiflut-land, bato, wljoywake, wayland-pipewire-idle-inhibit, ananicy-cpp, easyeffects, wl-mirror, gtk3-classic, keyd, iwgtk, qtalarm, kvantum and subliminal are all available, haven't checked which are yet

    couple of those (pwvucontrol and notiflut-land) aren't even in the AUR yet so it'll be a while.

  • My PC is mostly foss, the exceptions being that I use YouTube and discord. still working on my phone though.

  • Excluding hardware (microcode, UEFI, etc); within my Linux system, the only proprietary software I have installed are Nvidia drivers and Steam (installed via flatpak). When I first made the switch to Linux, I was actually shocked at the minimal amount of proprietary software I actually used/needed.

  • Edit: I didn't see the community, sorry, feel free to disregard this comment lol

    Phone OS: GrapheneOS Calendar: Fossify Calendar Files: filen.io Gallery: Fossify Gallery E-mail: ProtonMail Notes: Notesnook Keyboard: HeliBoard Maps: OrganicMaps Passwords: Proton Pass RSS: Feeder Step counter: Forest YouTube frontend: NewPipe, FreeTube Weather: Breezy weather

    I still use services like Spotify, FB Messenger, and Play services for some of my banking apps. I'm a bit new to this whole privacy thing and custom ROMs, but so far it feels good. When I buy a computer I'll install Linux on it.

  • Libre hardware:

    • Turris Omnia router with their OpenWrt-based distro. Bought in 2017, upgraded to Wifi-6 in 2022. Great product.
    • 3x system76 laptops with Coreboot and Debían
    • The desktop is a system76 darter pro with a broken hinge, so it's connected to a widescreen monitor and external mouse, keyboard. Also Debían.

    The non FOSS systems are:

    • HP Dev One running proprietary UEFI, and Pop!_OS
    • a couple of Pixel phones running stock OS
    • an iPad Pro with keyboard from 2018
    • X201 Thinkpad with AFFS upgrade running Debían. Connected to some AudioEngine speakers and Spotify, this is our media player.
    • a Thinkpad T43p with XP for Age of Empires and Freecell
    • an Apple TV.

  • On my home PC everything is FOSS. I'm a serious hobby user of Inkscape and GIMP. No advantage to using commercial alternatives.

    Work PC is all commercial software. For me FOSS CAD doesn't come close.

  • OS

    • Linux on my laptop, had hackintoshed a 2015 MacBook Pro before to run macOS Sonoma, and that ran on this device before
    • Windows on my desktop to play games from studios that are owned by a certain Chinese investment company starting on T.
    • stock Android on my SM-A536B since LineageOS isn't ported (yet) to this device.

    (Semi)Libre Software

    • Zed
    • Eternity for Lemmy
    • Tubular (NewPipe + Sponsorblock and ReturnYTDislike)
    • Tusky for Mastodon
    • Rust (the language)

    Proprietary software

    • GSuite (for collaboration)
    • Games and game launchers (namely Steam on PC and on laptop and Epic shitty games launcher on PC)

    I'd consider my setup 8/10 FOSS.

    • Why is Zed (Semi)Libre Software? Do you know something that I don't?

      • The collaboration feature + the inclusion of GitHub login and Copilot. Though those can be stripped out if you don't want them.

  • Linux desktop with an Nvidia GPU, two Linux laptops, android phone. I'm struggling to think of any closed source productivity apps I still use, and I play games from Steam. NAS is running whatever Synology crap it came with, I haven't tried fucking with the firmware on my Epson, my 3D printer runs Marlin and my laser engraver runs GRBL.

  • I try but games are important to me, though I don't play modern games these days. I al as o make an exception for speaking/playing with friends.

  • Increasingly so over time. Will try to install coreboot on my laptop soon. I avoid proprietary blobs where possible too but for stuff like the kernel, proprietary blobs are kinda unavoidable if you want a fully functional system. Tbf I've not tried linux-libre but I just assume it won't agree with some of my tower PC's hardware.

    Aside from low-level stuff, I do still use Steam (and the proprietary games on there) and Discord—Steam cause all my games are there and it's convenient, and Discord cause a few of my friend groups primarily talk over Discord. Been considering setting up a Matrix bridge for Discord but I don't think that meaningfully achieves anything since it'll still all be on Discord's servers which are proprietary. I also occasionally install proprietary software to read proprietary file formats and would usually uninstall once I'm done reading the file.

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