Here's what a perpetual newbie has to say about debian vs. Trisquel: I was a
long-time user of debian until my Nvidia graphics card hosed the whole
system, and I did not want the hassle of another Nvidia card install.
Furthermore, I had experienced three or four new debian packages forced upon
me, and the expense of fixing the broken upgrades, probably largely my fault
because of confusion about the exact package names, soured me on debian, even
though the professionals who helped me were efficient, knowledgable and
successful in fixing my dilemmas. These debian installs were ultra stable for
several years each time, to the extent that I forgot everything but sudo
apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and was helpless when the inevitable
happened.
The installation of Trisquel was a breeze, only marred by an inadvertent call
for a proprietary package by one application (hplip) towards the end of the
first installation that wanted a root password that doesn't exist in Trisquel
and by a lousy combination of an old, usupported graphics chipset and a
monitor with an unusual aspect ratio of 1680x1050.
None of this was Trisquel's fault, and the Trisquel community has been
extremely helpful.
