Probably for the tough requirements for the free enough computer he can get today. He is currently using Lenovo thinkpad X60, flashing free bios, then install

Probably for the tough requirements for the free enough computer he can get today. He is currently using Lenovo thinkpad X60, flashing free bios, then install Trisquel(Ubuntu minus non-free binary blobs). Probably harder to install than most of us do(get non-free binary blob infected compute and install linux kernel with a lot of non-free binary blobs)