[HLUG] New member information

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Ann

We have one or two members who live near Leominster, so perhaps someone
could give you a lift ? Otherwise the railways station isnt too far from
the Courtyard, and its not so bad with the lighter evevnings now

Regards

Julian


On 3 April 2014 15:22, Ann Tether <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:

> Hello Julian
> Thank you for making me so welcome to this group, I just thought I would
> do a search to see if there was a local linux group, and there you were.
> Mint - Mate edition does seem to be doing the trick for me, but there are
> so many distros that it was more by chance than anything else that it was
> Mint I chose. Everything else seems good at the moment - especially as I
> can still run some of my games via Wine, and Libre looks just as good if
> not better than OpenOffice. Hope I will get chance to meet up in the future
> but I don't drive so will have to sort something out. I mentioned on the FB
> Linux Mint group that I had found you and the members there were quite
> jealous I think (they are from all parts of the World) and none have local
> groups.
> Kind regards
> Ann
>
> On 03/04/14 11:57, Julian Robbins wrote:
>
>> Hello Ann
>>
>> Firstly, welcome to the Herefordshire LUG.  I hope you will get something
>> useful out of joining our group.
>>
>> Thank you for post about using Linux Mint.  Normally I send an
>> introductory
>> email to new members of the LUG,  asking them to post about themselves and
>> what they want to get out of the group,  but you beat me to it ;-)
>>
>> I'm pleased Mint is working out so well for you.  It's an ideal win XP
>> replacement,  and for many existing Windows users ideal for many purposes.
>>
>> You're welcome to come along to our regular monthly meetings usually held
>> fourth Weds of each month,  with a few special events taking place
>> throughout the year too.
>>
>> If you get stuck please just ask for help.  We all try to help Linux
>> newcomers as much as we can.
>>
>> Equally I'm pleased you're all set with your sound and printer now.  We
>> had
>> a recent thread about some printer manufacturers being more if a pain
>> properly supporting Linux than others,  come in Canon ..  So if you're on
>> the look out for any new hardware asking the group first for their
>> experiences can be very useful to avoid problems later on.
>>
>> Please tell any windows xp owning friends about Linux and Open Source,  as
>> I'm sure you're aware windows will be stopping security updates for XP
>> very
>> very soon,  whereas Linux Mint and others can provide new life for older
>> laptops secure and completely fully up to date.
>>
>> Again many thanks for joining our group.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Julian Robbins
>> Herefordshire LUGMaster
>> On 2 Apr 2014 22:50, "Ann Tether" <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I live in Leominster and use Linux Mint 16 - Mate. I am new to Linux as I
>>> was an XP user, but wish I had migrated much earlier. I have found a good
>>> support group on Facebook who have helped me with teething problems, ie:
>>> sound issues and printer drivers, but now all is well.
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