Remaining issues in Trisquel 6.0

Welcome Heather!

> I need to get non-proprietary wireless cards for the laptop and netbook eventually

If you want to replace your wifi card (with a working one), I suggest you to do the following:

Important: If your laptop uses a wifi+bluetooth combo card and you'll replace it with a wifi-only card, you will loose the bluetooth functionality on your system.
1. Go to the ath9k driver page and select a chip (or chipset) with the specs that fits your needs
2. Search that chip (or chipset) on the WikiDevi Atheros page and click on the link under the Reference designs category
3. In the right-bottom corner, you'll find a table with devices that uses the selected chip (or chipset). Select one
4. Search for it using eBay, DealExtreme or AliExpress (or whatever site you prefer for shopping) and buy it cheap, second-hand, from China (should cost you less than 10$)
5. After you disassembled your laptop and replaced the wireless card, sell the old card on eBay (or whatever site you prefer for selling things). This way, replacing the card will cost you almost nothing

> but I'm happy getting sound but no video from YouTube on the old gal

Note: With Midori (Trisquel-mini), YouTube videos didn't work very well

There are tons of ways you can get YouTube working. Some of them including:

1. Install Minitube: Download (amd64/i386)
2. If you're using Trisquel-mini, install Abrowser (Abrowser packaging is currently broken in Trisquel 6.0 Toutatis, so there's no way to install it correctly at the moment)
3. If you're using Abrowser, install Lightspark: Description
4. Go to the YouTube HTML5 page and click to Join the HTML5 Trial on the bottom of the page

> Is there anything in particular that I could be doing to help as far as testing?

I still need a confirmation from someone that Ruben (alias quidam, the Trisquel project leader) is aware of the existence of this wiki page I created (imagine my frustration after the final release when I find out that my efforts were in vain just because he overlooked that page). If you have used na IRC client before (Pidgin or XChat), you can contact quidam and send the link to him. I would be grateful for that (sorry for asking such a dumb favor, but I have no experience with using any IRC client).

Other than that, you can just use the RC (Release Candidate) and report any issues you've found with the issue tracker system or by reporting it on the already mentioned toutatis-development wiki page.

> I'm very pleasantly surprised by Mini and don't see any reason to switch to Lubuntu, Puppy, or DSL, since this RC meets my modest needs just fine.

I doesn't like the way Ruben's trading this edition because it lacks many basic features (like composition manager, screenshot tool, task manager, keyboard layout switcher, search tool, bluetooth support, user managing, screen saver, just to name a few), so I cannot recommend it without making heavy optimizations. (GNU/)Linux Mint LXDE does not have these issues (but it contains non-free software, so sadly there is no other choice).

Thank you for helping me out. Can you ask him, if he permit the merge of his and my toutatis-development wiki page together? If so, I'll probably do it tomorrow.