Thank you GNUser for your input. Only there's no such problem in my case.
Debian 6 is out of the question, the kernel is too old. But Debian 7 does
work, till it freezes. Tails, which is Debian 6 with a recent kernel had some
issues, now it goes without a problem. Ubuntu I don't touch because of their
Microsoftish policies. I know they are free. I also know that I am not
skilled enough to take everything harmful out. I didn't like Fedora either
because of their «latest software», huge quantity of updates and rpm. I
don't know. In the past I have bricked a few computers with rpm updates. I
never tricked deb distributions into that. But Fedora is smooth. And Fedora
has security updates. And it can handle everything I throw at it it seems.
Including upgrading full disk encrypted systems. Trisquel can't run on my
hardware because it needs too many proprietary code, including for
backlighting.
I used to build up my own PC. Since I switched to laptop only I'm handicapped
and depend on others to do it for me. Heck! I don't need a webcam or optical
driver either.
Free BIOS would be nice. Long battery life and the ability to go over to
their shop if there's an issue I can't fix trumps that. Or, as you point out:
going with a Trisquel CD.
