I recently flashed Mint on a MacBook Air 2012, but WiFi is really unstable and slow. Probably a driver issue. I had worse luck with Debian and Fedora.

Check the FSF’s violations of GNU licenses page. You can also email the FSF’s licensing and compliance lab at licensing@fsf.org and our team would be happy to assist.

Xonotic

Probably the Free Software Directory.

For DAW, you may also want to check out Zrythm and Ardour.

The patent was about a “sorting system”. More info here.

It was a niche network for few passionate people. Content was more political than generic. It always felt like it would succeed though. Only thing I’m missing is that the website was blazing fast back then. It’s struggling now with all the new users but I’m sure that will be fixed sooner or later.

That’s true. It’s the human element that creates the political attribute.

You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.

Someone on Hacker News suggested the name “Gnux” instead of “GNU/Linux”.