Just a few cents I wanted to give you.
Trisquel GNU/Linux, for me, has been the most inconvenient distro to set up
and get it to work. I can only use a limited range of hardware with my
computer (due to proprietary firmware blobs not present), it doesn't detect
my printer automatically, and the shell and user interface have all sorts of
annoying issues. Why do I keep using Trisquel GNU/Linux?
Because, with free software, Stallman's Four Freedoms, when the software
license agrees with them, grant us the rights to share the software as a
community. Rather than one entity being allowed to exercise control over
their software through “intellectual property rights” (software patents,
copyright, etc), the software is collectively owned by the community, and
people may do as they wish with the software.
And one inheritant benefit of this is security. Microsoft and Apple purposely
insert backdoors in their software and/or refuse to fix security holes so
government agencies can exploit them. With free software, independent
security experts have 100% source code access so they can analyze it for any
security vulnerabilities, thanks to Stallman's freedom #2 and #4.
