The work involved in making Trisquel is different and certainly more
harassing and ungrateful
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
Ubuntu-purge: A set of scripts that clean up the main upstream repositories,
removing non-free packages and branding.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/development-0
You may not find it looks "awesome"compared to certain other
OS's but many of these fancy looking OS's are not Free as in Freedom
If you're an Ubuntu user and you're using the default settings, each time you
start typing in Dash (to open an application or search for a file on your
computer), your search terms get sent to a variety of third parties, some of
which advertise to
But you can Liberate Xubuntu on a fresh installation by removing the repos
from Restricted and Multiverse repos and all proprietary software, disable
these repos under Software Sources.and not install the proprietary
codecs,remove the Ubuntu App looking Software Center ,install Synaptic
package manager,then install Libre-Kernel from
https://jxself.org/linux-libre
reboot,run...see if all is ok,then remove all the Ubuntu's kernels
If this is fragmentation ....i'd rather say you have great power to do many
things among having the choice of what you consider respects your freedom
