> You need non-free firmware for 3D acceleration, but you don't have to
> enable 3D acceleration and can actually run the thing without non-free
> code.

This is probably true, unless it needs a nonfree video BIOS (I've seen
kernel sources with it included as a blob).  Although there are many
Radeon-related problems reported by users of Trisquel, often due to
drivers being unstable without the firmware.

> You just have to give up 3D acceleration, which is basically
> useless anyway, since there are approximately 0 games for this arch.

There are many free software games (Trisquel repos certainly include
them) and nongame programs like Blender which use 3d acceleration.

>  Since I'm playing videogames a lot (wine works wonders once you've
> ruled out the problems with the video drivers), I assume it won't work
> out for me as the primary system.

Users of Lemote YeeLoongs play free software games, there are no
problems in running FreeDink or Wesnoth there.  With a GPU not needing
nonfree software, it would be probably possible to play games using 3d
acceleration there.

> I also need to program stuff and I would like to be able to compile
> code to a x86 binary.

I do some programming using a YeeLoong and not building x86 binaries.
There is not reason to build them, unless distributing them to x86
machines which often build such binaries quicker.  Distributing binaries
between various x86 machines/distros is difficult (e.g. due to different
shared library versions), building locally is better also without using
other architectures.

> Not sure how well crosscompiling works, but I
> have a feeling it doesn't work as good as compiling on a real x86
> machine.

It works for well-written packages, i.e. it shouldn't be a problem
unless you are a distro developer.

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