On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 08:28:15PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Steve McIntyre dixit:
You've utterly missed Phil's point about people not seeing or hearing
boot options.
I didn’t. I pointed out that people can select different bootloader
options if their bootloader is already set up for them, or that they
can pre-create different images with nōn-free-firmware enabled if not.
OK, apologies. You haven't missed it. Instead you seem to want to make
a blind user have to do extra work before they even start doing an installation? That's not exactly a helpful first introduction, is it?
Go and read my first mail in the thread for context.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2022/08/msg00001.html
That? It doesn’t at all address the bootloader.
It *exactly* says why I want to enable use of the non-free by default:
"""
A reason for defaulting to installing non-free firmware *by default*
is accessibility. A blind user running the installer in text-to-speech
mode may need audio firmware loaded to be able to drive the installer
at all. It's going to be very difficult for them to change this. Other
people should be able to drive the system (boot menus, etc.) to *not*
install the non-free firmware packages if desired.
"""
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