In April this year I was doing my regular biennial clean install of the latest *buntu 18.04 release, when I learned about Canonical's latest incursion into big data surveillance, so I decided instead to install Trisquel v8.0 ("Flidas"), which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 and cleaned of all the Canonical crud. I'm still coming to terms with the full ramifications of the "free software" movement, and trying to keep proprietary blobs off my machines. I'm slowly learning, and finding new packages that respect my freedoms.