> I used to have this Arch Linux distro.<p>I think you'll strike a better balance with Ubuntu than Arch.<p>> I trust American capitalism to do a well-enough job.<p>Stallman's right about one thing: general purpose computing is under threat. What if buying a CPU that can boot without a signed bootloader from its manufacturer becomes so uncommon that it's outlawed? It doesn't sound terribly far-fetched to me. For now I have the freedom to buy x86 chips and opt-out of Trusted Platform. But I can foresee a day when that's no longer the case.<p>> I just don’t want to spend 3 hours looking up what broke my Wi-Fi drivers this time.<p>Yeah, I hear you. I've been using a linux laptop for my regular machine for 4-5 years now and sometimes there are some hiccups.