Hi all.
From the Acorn Electron and BBC Basic, through the limbo of beige boxes
running Windows, then Apple before the fascism became too ugly to bear...and
now to Ubuntu and my little Acer, it's been quite a journey. Now looking to
move to the world of free software. I'm new to this and I don't mind asking
questions.
I would dearly love, having developed in my early 40's a real deep seated
need for freedom, to move to the world of free software.
I am currently using an Acer laptop, and running Ubuntu, but this is not
enough, and I would like to run totally free software, then when my Acer
packs up, look to buy a totally free system. I have tried free software
(Gnewsense, Trisquel6 and 7 ) and of these Trisquel 7 was the closest to
working for me. It recognised my wifi card and I could connect wirelessly,
(which is not essential), but the brightness control didn't work at all, and
the suspend/hibernate function did not work either. This was a pain to say
the least.
My question is this. If I am to transition to the free world, is
inconvenience like this usual and do people just 'live with it' ?
I don't use the web too much, I really only use my computer for email and for
looking at the occasional website and news feeed with Lynx, and I'm at an
early stage of learning Lisp after discovering emacs, and the command line. I
don't own a mobile phone. I detest them.
If the aforementioned inconveniences are par for the course, then I will
willingly accept that as part of the price of freedom, but I'd like to hear
your views on this.
I'm very happy that my journey has brought me here, and I'd like to share and
contribute to the community if I can help.
Happy days.
Sam.
- [Trisquel-users] New arrival sam73
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