I have decided to stay on Trisquel 7 for the following reasons.
* easy for non-technical users
* good community
* FSF uses it
* My email provider, more reliable than my laptop, uses T6
* doesn't use a different, misleading definition of "free"
* doesn't talk about how you can add nonfree software
About other distros --
Parabola
* requires unnecessary work from non-technical users
* worse community: no forum, and some developers left to make
Hyperbola
* 64-bit only (I have an X60)
* sometimes a free package will be removed because they're too
lazy to make a free version of its plugin repository, and
your-freedom won't let me add it back
* they remove free software for other tiny reasons that could just
be corrected instead of removing the whole frickin package
Debian
* they include Chromium-derived code, which is spyware, and might
not be fully free (Chromium-derived code is being used in LOTS
of programs, BTW, so it's hard to avoid)
* they neuter Emacs because of the stupid FDL disagreement
* they always talk about how to install nonfree software
* their Firefox browser is loaded with ads, asks you about
installing DRM, and has Pocket, a free interface that runs a
nonfree JavaScript program inside itself, and a service I just
don't want
* the community sucks, because they are always eager to suggest
Skype to you or help you install it, and I don't want to put new
users in that position
* it uses a different definition of 'free', so I can't always
trust them to be compliant with what GNU considers free
gNewSense
* small/no community
GuixSD
* no GUI installer
* disk encryption is harder than on Parabola
* Missing packages: I can't reproduce my workflow on it yet
Gentoo
* community not focused on free software
* nonfree software can sometimes slip through the license
screening
* compiling stuff stresses my old hardware
* Chromium code
* Ad-ridden Firefox
Fedora
* nonfree kernel
* Chromium code
* community not focused on free software
* their Firefox probably has Pocket and other junk
--
Caleb Herbert
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