What distros should an install fest recommend or install for the public? On moral grounds, an install fest should not recommend or install nonfree programs. However, people will bring computers that need nonfree drivers or firmware blobs in order to run at all—without those, they will go away disappointed and consider GNU/Linux a failure.

We thought of an idea for how to reconcile these two needs: the install fest installs a free distro, then “the devil” (a person wearing a devil mask) offers to install the nonfree drivers or blobs that machine needs.