[Trisquel-users] What would you do ?

[teodorescup]

I'm having a dilemma regarding what os to use on a laptop that doesn't  
connect to the internet and full disk encryption is imperative.

My piece of junk laptop fails to connect to the wired network in both  
Trisquel and Ubuntu live so a netinstall is impossible as far as I know; and  
my only option was to "downgrade" my freedom on the laptop to Ubuntu 12.10  
because of the installer option to use full disk encryption.

I don't use proprietary software anyway (not even mono), nor the Trisquel  
desktop, so my biggest issue I assume it would be the Ubuntu kernel blobs.

Other than installing linux-libre and removing possibly installed proprietary  
software as described in the "Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without  
reinstalling" guide; what other options do I have ?