You don't need any hardware upgrades whatsoever - though of course it'll be
far from being the last thing you do.
Here's a note about other distributions: Trisquel is committed to using only
Free Software: Free in that it respects what for us are the human rights
software users deserve.
Linux Mint, on the other hand, takes a different view and do include software
that we don't see as being respectful to our rights as software users. For
example, Adobe Flash and proprietary drivers and firmware doesn't allow
people to study its source code (since it's not even released).
