[nmglug] Meeting tonight;

[Ted Pomeroy]

NMGLUGers, We had a small meeting last night, I missed reading these emails
till today; I did not see an attachment from Art, but he was at the virtual
meeting. In a nod to freedom, we did mention that a certain corporate
hardware could use a Linux OS, but he demurred. Although too small to be
statistically significant those present were more likely to use bash than
any of the other shells. As bash is still the default shell it just makes
sense for most users to start there.
As for distros - well there is lots of choice. I still prefer the "Ubuntu,
based on Debian" combination. This unit is Debian Stretch (9.13), but not
my most recent install. When introducing others to Gnu/Linux I like to be
able to present a menu driven desktop experience.
I have a mixed use on Firefox - where FirefoxESR is on this 32-bit machine,
but on my daily use, Xubuntu 21.04 install I have Web/epiphpany-browser
from the GNU Project. This keeps me closer to the principles of freedom and
support for FSF, at least I hope so.  I am getting used to Web, and
learning how to manage the sandboxing and clearing the history and cookies.
I was mostly disappointed with the gui settings of the new Firefox. Mozilla
has an active vision for the web, but it just went in a direction that my
user habits didn't grasp. We will have to see how this pans out in the next
few months.
Have a good couple of weeks. Do check out the news on Free software and the
Free Software Foundation.
Thank you, Ted P.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 4:43 PM Wesley Robbins <wezzels at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you like trying new distorts try Garuda it has such a over the top pre
> configured fish shell.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 4:31 PM Art Barnes <art at pin2.io> wrote:
>
>> See you there! I can go over my belated fish tutorial/evaganelizing (see
>> attached for my tutorial script) and rant about how Firefox market share
>> has now fallen below 5%
>>
>> Cheers
>> -Art
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2021, at 10:21 AM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> NMGLUGers, We have a meeting tonight at 5:30pm, MDT, still virtual as per
>> nmglug.org/meetings/ where the address of the meeting can be found. I
>> managed to login to jitsi on a 32 bit machine, so I may try to use it
>> tonight, though the video quality may or may not be passable. No camera,
>> but we have be limiting the camera use for attendees to improve the audio
>> for those with poor connection.
>> We could talk about if and where to meet in person to promoted Free
>> Software, but the cafe landscape has changed over the years and I certainly
>> don't have a good suggestion.
>> See you tonight if you are able. Thank you, Ted P
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