First post, and a word about my distros of choice.
Been mostly running Macs for ten years, and decided around Xmastime that it
was time to start the transition to Linux. Because: libre software. I believe
in it. Time to put my values into practice.
So in the past few months I've ISOburned about three dozen distros.
Generally, the Ubuntu-based ones are prettier, easier, and more what I'm used
to from Apple. However, when I get my pretty new Royal Penguin from Chris in
a few weeks, it will NOT be running a distro with Canonical lineage.
Why not? Well, when you read deep (about Unity, about Dash, about Stallman's
spyware comment, and most recently about the Mir fiasco), this is just not a
corporate entity that I want anything to do with. They've even started moving
away from using the word Linux (much less Gnu-Linux).
Compare that to Debian, a truly community-based distro with a mighty fine
Social Contract running behind it.
Probably, I'll end up running Wheezy when it becomes the new Stable in a
month or two. Apt-pinning, to get around the above-mentioned 'old software'
issues.
But maybe SalineOS. Maybe SolydX or SolydK (the luscious new replacements for
the dead Linux Mint Debian Editions XFCE and KDE). Maybe Chakra or Manjaro or
Sabayon on the side, and almost certainly multibooting for a while until I
end up rolling my own with Linux from Scratch or Reconstructor. Or maybe
those Gnewsense people if they ever wake up and release version 3.
Trisquel is a work of art, aesthetically and politically. I love the people
here--this is one of my favorite forums to read for fun. But--for me and me
only--it doesn't make much sense to go to such great lengths to be a Libre
Purist, and then base on a company that every time I turn around gives less
and less of a shit about the basic freedoms we all embrace ... or even about
its own community.
Just my noob two cents. Peace on you all.
