Good to hear you got it installed okay.
> The installer did seem to hang on both occasions - 4.0 from the card and
5.5 from the USB stick I just made - but tapping ESC and a few random keys a
few times, seemed to unstick it...
I can't remember if that was the same problem I had with 5.0 earlier this
year, using the GUI installer. Did you use the GUI installer? It could be a
bug...
I know that the text-only installer doesn't have this issue though, because
that's how I got Trisquel 5.0 installed after having issues with the
graphical option.
> I'm really impressed by how complete and sophisticated the system feels. I
was expecting to have to take a fairly big step backwards.
Judging from a few posts I've seen, other people are the same. Besides some
minor bugs, GNOME fallback mode is actually pretty good. Ruben (the Trisquel
founder) does a good job at putting everything together.