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@yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @menherahair@eientei.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br You have to approach any issue from the issue of the majority of users.We think ensuring software freedom is more important than hardware support for the majority of users.
But putting up these barriers of entry to most simply restricts new usersThe FSF is aware of this. That's why they have the freedom ladder campaign where you slowly work up from fully proprietary computing to fully free computing.
I'm sure we'd both rather people used Trisquel than Ubuntu being usedIf you distributed Trisquel but included all the nonfree blobs with it, it would honestly be no different than using Ubuntu so no.
I'd imagine the average experience of a brand new FSF user is going to the recommended page, downloading a random one on the list, then being confused when it doesn't detect WIFI on the installer setup.I don't think this will happen. All the FSF endorsed distros clearly state in their documentation that hardware that requires proprietary drivers is not supposed, usually specifically listing WiFi cards and such as well. The FSF also recommends people to look up all you hardware on h-node.org

If people run into issues while ignoring all documentation I don't think you can really blame that on the FSF or these distros.