I bought the Think Penguin wi-fi adapter so that I could switch back to using Trisquel, as I'd been using Lubuntu for wi-fi compatibility after moving beyond cable reach. I chose to try Trisquel 7 instead of 6.01 because it's nearing completion, and for the most part it's working well. Where something goes wrong, however, it fails horribly: the screen slows then freezes during the "loading" notification whenever I try to view Home with hidden files visible. The only recourse has been REISUB -- and sometimes even that didn't work.
Though I can operate a computer just fine, I'm out of my depth in troubleshooting. Even if the issue showed up in a log, I don't know where to look for such a log. Not knowing whether it's Trisquel, nouveau, my hardware, or even intrusion or surveillance, I find myself frustrated beyond belief and about to take a sledge hammer to my PC. (And in that last sentence, my text editor closed for no reason.) So that brings me to my next point: if this is not a glitch, if this is indeed something malicious, something infecting the firmware or perhaps surreptitiously added to the wi-fi hardware before it reached me, how can I shake it off? All my contacts are through the Internet, all my OSes are downloaded; even if I got a stranger to give me a ride to a computer repair shop, their cell-phone or GPS or something would give it away. (And gedit closed again.) Now I'm getting panicky. My future -- business plans, finances, friendships -- would be undermined if this turns out to be something creepy like a computer cracker or government agent playing sadistic games with my life. (I'm no Hemingway, but the precedent stands!) After getting the wi-fi module, I started experiencing numerous strange problems, despite my best efforts at stringent wi-fi security. Keystrokes would begin returning the wrong characters, yet I noticed no language/localization software active. The system became slower and much less responsive. (Closed again!) Now, similar occurrences are popping up with Trisquel, too, and I installed it just today! This makes me suspicious. Though I've been involved in some minor libertarian activism, and have recently experimented with Tor, Bitmessage, and the like, I don't see what profit there would be in attacking me; still, I wouldn't put it past the bullies. I know this post is rather disjointed, perhaps even paranoid, but I would appreciate any advice or help you could provide.
