| Walt Mankowski via plug on 1 Jan 2025 11:02:22 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wed Jan 1 - PLUG Central - "Will 2025 Finally Be the Year of Linux on the Desktop?" by Will Christensen (7pm online) |
Hi all, Just a reminder that PLUG Central will be meeting TONIGHT at 7 PM EST. Details are below. Walt On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 10:32:11AM -0500, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug wrote: > PLUG Central will be meeting on Wednesday, January 1, beginning at 7pm > EST (midnight UTC). The meeting will be online. Details are at the > bottom of the email. > > This month, PLUG welcomes back Will Christensen. Will will be leading > a discussion on why he thinks 2025 might finally be the year of Linux > on the desktop. > > Considering that the latest changes to the policies of Windows 11 > might actually mean this might become the proper year of Desktop > Linux. I think that might be the discussion topic. > > Considering that Steam has lots of linux support for games, > Microsoft is pushing a web model that free's all users from using > Windows for Office. There are many reasons why we may actually be > looking at mass Linux adoption that isn't a joke. Further discussion > can be around issues outstanding. > > We'll be using Jitsi Meet, a free and open source videoconferencing > platform, for the meeting. The meeting will start at 7 PM. The talk will > start at 7:15. Q&A and general chat will follow the talk. > > You can access the meeting online at > > https://meet.jit.si/PLUGCentralJanuary2025 > > Jitsi Meet also has apps for iOS and Android. If you decide to > use one of those apps, use meeting code "PLUGCentralJanuary2025". > _______________________________________________ > plug-announce mailing list > plug-announce@lists.phillylinux.org > http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug