Re: [Trisquel-users] Orientation Advice

[chris]

Nobody here is going to recommend installation of a non-free driver/firmware  
or help you with it. The primary benefit of Trisquel is freedom. If you are  
really following the free software philosophically rather than the "open  
source" philosophy the non-free "option" isn't an option. If you are going to  
go this route there are other distributions you would go to instead. Most  
distributions are largely free although problematic for technical (and  
ethical) reasons related to non-free software.

Trisquel's technical benefit would be it doesn't include these non-free  
components so you know where at least some problems will likely arise going  
forward had you chosen a non-free distribution (particularly in relation to  
support for hardware- although as Adobe and Oracle have shown this applies to  
critical software components too). In any case Trisquel makes it easy to  
select the right stuff the first time around.