Kia ora SAM73, welcome to Trisquel! You are wise to seek help in these
forums. I soldiered on alone for nearly two years before I started posting
here, and I wish I'm come straight away. The Trisquel forums are well
moderated, and full of friendly, helpful, and passionate software freedom
warriors.
I am also user Acer hardware. I have an Acer Aspire One "netbook" (small
laptop). I realise our models are very different, and may contain very
different hardware, but there may be certain things I can help with. I am
happy to try.
With any GNU/Linux problem, the first thing I always do is a web search.
Commons problems will tend to have been reported on user forums, Stack
Exchange etc, and potential solutions can be found there. If that doesn't
work, I tend to search the problem in these forums.
If I can't find anything, here, I start a new thread describing the problem
in as much detail as I can, including my hardware, what version of Trisquel
I'm running, and what version of any applications involved in the problem.
Either the more experienced Trisquelers can give me advice on how to fix the
problem, or if its a bug, the maintainers can work on a patch, or pass the
bug report upstream to the maintainers of the specific software the bug is
affecting.
This is the power of free software. As a global community, we can achieve so
much more than as isolated individuals or small groups.
