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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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It didn't until 2022 or so, it's had a toggle that can be turned on or off for non-free repo's for as long as I can remember but, starting around 2022 they changed the default to allow for non-free (and also apparently made it a pain in the butt for the live install to disable it because its a boot param now instead of a toggle)