Chris,
your points are perfectly valid from the perspective of one who needs to
bring a consistent platform to peoples which is easy to maintain / support.
I was solely speaking for individuals and not for companies. I just would
like that people stop telling that setting up a standard system for Trisquel
is overly complicated. Even if you are not poor, for you as an individual it
is much cheaper (also in terms of money per time) to set up your own system
if you are skilled enough. It's not really rocket sience to avoid the point I
mentioned (no AMD GPU, NVidia GPU or Intel, etc). Even for WLAN there are
options like using your onboard NIC plus a WLAN bridge. If you remember the
benchmark values I posted some month ago, you could see that an old AMD
dualcore (2x2.7GHz) plus a GeForce 9800GT could easily compete with an Intel
system with the top notch I7 which was a lot more expensive at this time.
Even the crappy AMD Sempron I mentioned (1.7 GHz Single Core / 2GB DDR RAM /
80 GB HDD / S3 Unichrome Onboard graphic) is fast enough for the most daily
things: Watching 720p videos downloade from Youtube with Viewtube, writing
e-mail, etc.
I got this system as gift from a colleague. Installing Trisquel 6.0 took
something like 45 minutes with a few mouse clicks.
So please, tell me....what would be the benefit to shell out something like
400-500€ to buy a new system instead of simply using an old box ?
Best regards,
Holger
