Its been nice meeting you all,
Its been nice meeting you all, but I am now moving on to try Debian. I'd love to stay on Trisquel, but I have had to reinstall my whole OS like three times now, and no matter what I do it just keeps overheating and shutting down my PC. I just cant find a fix and I cannot afford to drop $600 to $800 on a new laptop at the moment, no matter how bad I want one. I will eventually buy the x200 (I think it was called) and buy the maxed out version with all the best parts, but it may be a while before I can.
I want to thank all of you very much for the information and attention. Please feel free to delete this profile, and thanks again.
Yea, as root_orca said, you don't need to use Trisquel to chat with us!
Heck, I haven't used Trisquel in about eight months or so at this point. :p
If you do decide to leave anyway-- good luck, mate. :)
I'm going to try again to use it. Thanks for the help.
On 05/06/2016 05:22 PM, name at domain wrote:
> Yea, as root_orca said, you don't need to use Trisquel to chat with us!
> Heck, I haven't used Trisquel in about eight months or so at this point. :p
> If you do decide to leave anyway-- good luck, mate. :)
>
I am a translator!
Mate, OP, it's not like we are a cult of the midnight lamb here - you can contribute to the forum even if you use MS/DOS.. Just respect the forum rules.
I, for instance have been using Debian with only the main repo for over a year now. Mybe the next year I'll move to Parabola. What's the fuss? This forum is about free software and helping people to use it, and everybody who respects the few forum rules and loves free software should be able to contribute.
>Mate, OP, it's not like we are a cult of the midnight lamb here - you can contribute to the forum even if you use MS/DOS.. Just respect the forum rules.
Oh dont get me wrong, I didnt mean to imply that you guys were cult like, not that there'd be anything wrongs wtith that ;) and I have no problem acknowledging the forum rules.
>What's the fuss? This forum is about free software and helping people to use it, and everybody who respects the few forum rules and loves free software should be able to contribute.
I was mistaken then, as I thought this forum was for Trisquel users only. I do have much to learn about free software, and I'd be honored to continue learning from you. I may stick around then.
To update my situation, I downloaded the latest Debian for my system (AMD 64) and when I attempted to install it, the ISO I burned would not boot. I tried several times, and it never booted at all.
Being as Ubuntu is the only Linux that my system will run well, I installed my Ubuntu 14.04 long enough to download the latest Ubuntu which is 16.04. It did install but I could not access the internet, so I had to reinstall my Ubuntu 14.04...
Could any of you assist me in removing the bad elements of Ubuntu, those that report to Canonical, or what ever it is that it does. I hate to ask this, but its the only OS that I can run in a stable manner.
Before you burn, you should check the authenticity of the downloaded image. There are checksums on the download page.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
How to install Ubuntu with only free software. I suppose they still have the option to select "Free software only".
https://askubuntu.com/questions/144208/how-do-i-make-ubuntu-use-only-free-software
https://askubuntu.com/questions/426160/what-is-the-free-software-only-option-when-installing-ubuntu
Here is a start:
Install the "Synaptic Package Manager" (if not installed by default). You can remove "Ubuntu Software Center", which fulfills the same purpose but recommends proprietary software.
Remove anything that was installed from the "restricted" section. The "Synatptic Package Manager" can show those packages: click the "Origin" button in lower-left corner of the window, then the related section above and the "S" (for "status) button right above the list of packages to move the installed package at the beginning.
Then, disable the "restricted" and the "multiverse" (I assume no package was installed from "multiverse" but you can check) sections, e.g., using "Software & Update" (accessible from the "System Settings" or within the "Synaptic Package Manager": menu Settings/Repositories).
I guess you would like to disable Ubuntu's spyware too: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
As far as I understand, some packages "unity-lens-*" must be removed.
And there may be other packages that raise more subtle issues. See https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines for instance.
Be aware that the extensions to Firefox may be free or proprietary. If you do not want to check the licenses by yourself, you can restrict yourself to https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons (these extensions work on Firefox).
Finally (well, it could be the first step), the kernel. Ubuntu's kernel is full of proprietary software. You can install another Linux-libre kernel from Jxself's APT Repository. Just follow the instructions on https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Boot that kernel and see if everything works. If something does not works, you can still boot the previous kernel (choosing it at the bootloader) and you can remove the malfunctioning kernel. Again: there is no need to reinstall the whole distribution because you booted a malfunctioning kernel (what you did with Trisquel)! Just boot another one, remove the malfunctioning kernel... and try another version of Linux-libre!
If you find a version that properly works, then, after some time of testing (say, a few months for safety), remove the kernel that comes with Ubuntu. But, then, there was a far simpler and better answer to your question: install Trisquel 7 and the exact same kernel from Jxself's repository! The kernel basically is the sole component responsible for hardware support...