Mastodawn

For folks in Ōtautahi Christchurch, I'll be running a Linux InstallFest on 12 April at Halswell Library from 13:00. If you want to take back control of your technology, come along and have a play!

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Future Sprog

What a good and timely idea!

Windows is so much worse in recent years that even if people don’t have ideological differences with “BigTech” and “AI” they sure will agree that there’s something wrong with their computer at the moment and they want it fixed!

What distros will you have on hand?

@futuresprog and if someone doesn't have 'ideological differences' with Big Tech... that person hasn't been paying attention 😎 - but thanks, yeah, seems like there's never been a better time. The digital tech Overton Window has shifted, I reckon. We'll have a bunch of distros on hand (Ventoy, donchaknow) but I strongly lean towards Debian-based options. We'll also be able to download others if, for example, someone turns up with a Mac, wanting to try Asahi Linux...

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Future Sprog 10h ago

Nice one.

It is perfect timing, what with a recent Windows update getting yanked because it was disastrously bad.

I usually push first timers towards Mint (which is Ubuntu derived, from Debian) although recently I’ve toyed with Bazzite and Bluefin (Fedora-derived).

Has Liquid Glass pissed off enough Mac users that they’ll want Asahi Linux???

@lightweight