<div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Will & Phil,</div><div><br></div><div>Can't say I've used
Trisquel either I'm afraid. The obvious answer is, of course, to back everything up to a separate drive (or two!) before doing anything.</div><div>And bizarrely, the one thing I don't see in their manuals is how to do an upgrade. Weird. Although based on a forum* post it seems to be the usual Ubuntu "sudo do-release-upgrade".
<div>This will do an in-place upgrade
and preserve "/home", which will cover 90% of things for general desktop
use (it has for me on KDE Neon) but there's always risk and things outwith "/home" could get nuked; so have a backup ready.</div>
</div><div>Just spotted that
Trisquel10 has dropped as well; never ceases, eh?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry to hear that you felt it hard to be "part of the crowd", Phil.</div><div>That won't have been anyone's intent I am sure and I didn't experience it myself when I first rocked-up (probably around 2014) knowing basically nothing, but then I am by my own admission pretty gallus.</div><div>The new Macs with the M1 (and coming M2 chips) look tasty, although I have found myself utterly stumped by networking on Macs.</div><div>Well...yes...I am stumped by networking at the best of times.<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>The meets still happen sporadically on Jitsi, but the pandemic really did give things a bit of a battering.</div><div>Now that restrictions are lifting for those of you South of the Wall, I am certain Martin will be getting things back on track ASAP.</div><div>Me; I won't be making a real-world meet any time soon. Small matter of geography!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Agree on the number of distros. Choice is great but after a while one gets stuck choosing, rather than doing.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jason<br></div><div><br></div><div>*Forum link: <a href="https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-upgrade-trisquel-8-trisquel-9">https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-upgrade-trisquel-8-trisquel-9</a></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 09:28, Phil Bass via Nottingham <<a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi, and welcome, Will.<div><br></div><div>This list used to announce meet-ups on Jitsi once a month but the last one was back in August. They were on a Thursday evening starting around 8:30 pm. I tend to be busy on Thursdays and the timing doesn’t work well for me so I only dropped in once or twice. The participants were very knowledgable but you had to be very much into Linux to feel part of the crowd. Although I worked on Fedora Linux before I retired in 2014 the discussions here often went over my head. And, nowadays, I use an Apple Mac almost exclusively. So I have remained just a lurker here.</div><div><br></div><div>I can’t say I’ve heard of Trisquel before - it seems to based on Ubuntu. I wish there weren’t so many Linux distributions. 🙁</div><div><br><div>
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