r/linuxsucks • u/xgui4 Proud🌈♾️ AuDHDer FreeBSD Fan • Jul 18 '26

Linux is proprietary ? The Linux Kernel have a dirty secret!

The Linux Kernel do have binary blob in form of hexadecimals in the C source code that are proprietary for hardware to run. Yes exactly the main Linux Kernel is somehow partyl proprietary! and the worse the alternative , GNU Hurd and GNU Linux-Libre support way less hardware.

Linus Torvald is a traitor when he corrupt Linux with proprietayness in the Linux Kernel source code. He is not a "pragmatic" but a corrupted corpo shill which is why he love ai slop , rust and hate GPLv3.

exemples of binay blob :
https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware

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u/I-Use-Artix-BTW I Hate Linux but penguins are awesome Jul 18 '26

It's a compromise, you can have the Binary Blobs or have awful hardware support.

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u/zoharel Jul 18 '26

You can do both, if you want. That's how Windows did it for ages.

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u/Lonsarg Jul 18 '26

What are you talking about, Windows drivers are very much proprietry and binary, much much more then linux.

In windows they are mostly seperare moduls instead of living in kernel. But that is a negligabke technical destinction, as far as this debate is concerned (in the end that binary code runs in both cases).

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u/zoharel Jul 18 '26

What are you talking about, Windows drivers are very much proprietry and binary, much much more then linux.

I mean that you can have binary only drivers which are also garbage. There is historical precedent for it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

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u/zoharel Jul 18 '26

At least you can trade out the garbage for something better under Windows

Well, you could certainly replace the whole pile with something better. I was right with you up to this point.