Did I really forget to format the hard drive when installing Debian yesterday?

Unrelated: the Debian expert installer is really handy, for example it asks wether you want nonfree packages

@noiob Well, Ubuntu asks that, too, but I mean it's a Debian fork soo 🤔​

@AdalwinAmillion the point is that the default installer just silently assumes that you're RMS, but on every Debian installation I've ever done the first order of business was always turning on nonfree to be able to install wifi firmware

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@noiob "What do you mean you want ACCESS to the THE INTERNET?!"

@AdalwinAmillion well, the internet is a scary place full of non-free code, we can't allow that

@noiob "Stop! You violated the law! Pay Torvalds a fine or serve your sentence!"

@AdalwinAmillion hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Actually it's GNU/Linux

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