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If you're actually planning to continue doing this with this particular distribution it would behoove you to locate and acquire a small cache of relatively chea

If you're actually planning to continue doing this with this particular distribution it would behoove you to locate and acquire a small cache of relatively cheap, supported wifi dongles. The cost is so small it makes no sense when you're already investing significant time on this. Offer to sell them the supported dongle at cost if they're super into what you're demonstrating. You'll probably find yourself profiting a little accidentally when they volunteer to pay you more for your time now that a transaction is happening. I don't think it's a good idea to send them off to find supported hardware on their own, people are justifiably anxious about buying potentially incompatible computer components - but when you have it in front of them plugged in and demonstrably functioning it's a completely different story.

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
Keep in mind I'm not shilling for Trisquel--I could just as easily push Ubuntu or Mint if I cared enough to reformat the flash drive on my membership card. The demo usually comes up organically if someone mentions that they're either frustrated with Windows or that they have an old computer/laptop kicking around that's too slow to run anything modern--that's when I tend to say, "Oh, let me see--maybe I can breathe some new life into it." With that said, the membership card takes a trivial amount of space in my wallet, so I don't exactly have to "plan" to pull it out. Keeping a FOSS-approved wifi dongle in my pocket at all times on the off-chance I might need to show it off would be slightly more burdensome.