I think sooner or later, I will give up on trisquel too.
First from a ideological point of view, i have concluded that nowadays it's
impossible to achieve real freedom and privacy AND being part of the digital
society at the same time. Despite the nsa scandal, the freesoftware movement
didn't advance, and my efforts in contributing to this movements are in vain;
i expect it to remain tiny in the near future, maybe until some serioius
catastrophe changes the minds of people. Trying ti avoid being spied on and
hsving freedom is at the moment like trying to prevent a ship pierced with
thousands of holes from sinking with your bare hands.
Talking about the os, i have experienced a lot more dependency/ apt errors
and found every trisquel installation break after some time, quite contrary
to debian.
I'm into gnu/linux since 12 years and know that these kind of errors i
experienced are better solved by reinstalling and not posting on a forum.
I dislike the development structure, dislike how the single developer never
talks to the community and still think he's more interested in adding nice
looking features on the feature list than providing a secure, stable and
relyable system.
He let's security updates dry out for weeks and removes an often used program
- i'm talking about thunderbird - without providing sny transition package.
Instead, he puts his time in redesigning a perfectly functual website and
implementing a risky feature into icecat.
I really get the impression that the outward appereance is all that matters
here and since he refuses to change the development structure i don't see
hope for any change in the future.
Due to serious security and privacy issues that happened in the past (running
ssh server by default, usage of google nameserver, dry out of security
updates etc.) i won't recommend this distro any longer.
Besides, i dislike how the front page creats the impression of the donations
going to the developer of the operating callec trisquel.
In fact this system is rubens work for less than 1%, the rest goes to gnu,
linux, debian, canonical developers and many more.
I think this should be pointed out somewhere.
Just my two cents.
