@Suiseiseki
> It's called replacing the garbage card with one that works with free software
That costs money. One reason I'm recycling old laptops is I don't have any. If I could figure out how to install a working WiFi driver for the garbage card in Trisquel, I'd switch back in a heartbeat. But that kind of advice seems to be impossible to get.
So I'm stuck with running it off a USB stick when I don't need WiFi, and switching back to Fedora when I do.