John wrote:
"Have used open office for years, so Trisquel suits me fine + the interface
is simple, clean & pleasant. IMO simplicity is an art."
Ae, the free code office suite formerly known as OpenOffice has improved
rapidly since most of the developers walked away from Oracle and formed the
DocumentFoundation and LibreOffice. Have you tried the web-based version of
LibreOffice?
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
"I'd like to full install Trisqel & get rid of Gates crapy windows
completely. However I'm not sure that the wifi is working properly."
Is that in the live session or after install? Very occasionally WiFi problems
solve themselves after installing to your internal drive and downloading and
installing all the updates. WiFi works fine on my AA1 without any proprietary
drivers, but as I said, it is a much older model than yours. It can take a
while before newer hardware can be made to work with existing free code
drivers, or new free code drivers written to support it.
If you can't get the WiFi working after installing and updating, I highly
recommend this Wifi dongle from ThinkPenguin:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-g-usb-adapter
I bought one for a desktop computer that had no WiFi, and needed to be able
to connect to a WiFi router at the other end of the house, sometimes through
two closed, wooden doors. It worked fine, and the customer support from
ThinkPenguin is second-to-none.
"I need wifi, as that's what this computer was essentially for."
Isn't that basically true of every computer smaller than a desktop these days
;)
