Hi everyone!
I joined the FSF a little while ago and just decided to install the distro
that came on the bootable USB card. I was amazed by what a simple install it
was. I'm just wondering about version - it's Taranis LTS till mid 2013, which
isn't really all that far off, so I'm wondering whether it'd be smarter to
install Brigantia (or even Toutatis and help with some bug reporting if it's
stable enough to put up with the alpha. Though I suppose I'd still want to
re-install to the production release anyway.)
What's your preferred version and how do you find the upgrade process when
there's a new release?
I've been mostly using openSUSE plus sometimes playing with other distros and
I'd like to try to keep my system free this time. Unfortunately when I'd got
my last laptop I'd decided to stop 'wasting time' with Linux (long story) so
I stupidly chose wireless with nonfree drivers (Lenovo 2x2) but I have an old
wireless dongle that is sort-of doing the job for now. I prefer that to
having to do workarounds to make non-free drivers work. Lesson learned
anyway. When I can afford it I plan on getting a laptop and tablet from
ZaReason.
I'm pleased to see that Trisquel has a nice active forum where the focus is
on good free software and not on whatever workaround to make proprietary
software work. I do still dual boot Windows for university software and a bit
of gaming, and TBH nonfree games don't really bother me (at present, I may
change my mind as I learn more) - too much ethically, because that's a choice
that doesn't affect other people, but I feel the operating system,
communications etc should definitely be free - if someone sends me a document
that requires non-free software to open, that's a problem and they are making
a choice that affects me.
So anyway, hello...! If there are any interesting threads you think a newbie
ought to read, please add a link.
- [Trisquel-users] Getting started; and Tanaris vs Brig... postmodernhousewife
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