BTW: Can some kind person please explain to me Why the WLUG disbanded? Due to transport, & other difficulties, I did not attend meetings very often; but I was really disappointed when it shut down. 🙁
Fewer and fewer members, resulting in fewer and fewer people presenting, resulting in a higher workload on those presenting (due to presenting multiple times a year), resulting in much less variety of topics, resulting in fewer members being attracted. Rinse and repeat a few years and you end up with a society that does not have sufficient members to fill its offices. Since no one wanted to step up, the only option was to dissolve the society.
With the Window-10 / Windows-11 fiasco looming in less than a years time - ( Security Updates for Windows-10 ending in October 2025 ) - there will be MILLIONS of W10 machines -(World-wide) - headed for the dump, as 90% of them cannot handle W11. I see this as an ideal situation for the promotion of Linux: Installing / Teaching / Collaborating etc. Your thoughts?
Yes, I agree. The artificially high bar that computers need to clear in order to receive an update is absurd. An up-to-date Linux distro would happily run on those machines for another few years. If change wasn't so difficult for people, Linux would have hit a much higher percentage on desktops years ago. Cheers, Peter