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A fork of Arch which removes access to proprietary drivers, firmware and other binaries. Comes with de-blobbed kernel which prevents the loading of proprietary firmware, so is not compatible with all hardware configurations.
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Pros
Pro Has its own repos
Parabola has its own repos (which are almost as large as Arch Linux) and the IceCat browser is included.
Cons
Con Small repositories
Since Parabola is a completely free distro, there is no non-free software available and the community repositories are small compared to the AUR.
Con Won't work out-of-the-box on the most PC's
Almost all PCs need non-free drivers but Parabola has none to offer.
Con Incompetent developers
They only care about removing non-free software, rather than making a properly working OS.
Con Serves no purpose
It's just Arch without non-free software and is basically a niche OS with few users.
Con Not compatible with AUR
Unlike other Arch-based distros, this free distro doesn't support AUR.
Con Very few packages
Since this is completely "free", you won't find many packages available, so there isn't a lot you can do with Parabola.
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