[Klug-general] Twenty Years...

[Colin McCarthy]

Wow this is a blast from the past...am glad I randomly checked this old
Gmail account.
Loved KLUG and all the friends made there....still see a few when I do my
annual trip back to the UK.
Not used Linux for years now...moved to ChromeOS in 2014 and it's been my
daily OS since then, with just a little Windows usage when needed.

Hope everyone is doing well and ready for the 'apt-get install new
government' tomorrow 🤪🤣

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 08:23, David Roman-Halliday via Kent <
kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> What a blast from the past!
>
> I remember turning up in Dover, having been out the night before (if I
> drank like that now, I'd be unable to function, never mind going to a LUG).
> I learned a lot from the group and it helped me professionally, not just
> because someone told me their company was looking for someone with my skill
> set, where I ended up meeting my wife.
>
> I moved to Ubuntu very quickly, after realising that it was just quicker
> to get up and running than doing more by hand in Debian.
>
> I'm still using Linux for professional work (less now than a few years ago
> when I was getting my hands dirty often), managed VMs and layers of service
> take much of the work out of it. Personally, I have a hosted Linux VM for a
> collection of personal projects. With most services being cloud based, OS
> on the personal computer has become less and less relevant.
>
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 at 02:14, George Prowse via Kent <
> kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm still on Linux, although I'm using various variants of Ubuntu instead
>> of building everything from scratch in Gentoo
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 09:06, Kevin Groves via Kent <
>> kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah. Well, Linux is so much easier now than back when we had install
>>> days :-)
>>>
>>> Still using Linux pretty much everywhere at home and work, and on so
>>> many devices too. Though at the moment I'm focusing on retro systems and
>>> building Z80 machines.
>>>
>>> Agree with Steam Windows. I can't believe I'm able to play AAA Windows
>>> games on Linux. They have done an amazing job. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Kev
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26/06/2024 9:58 pm, James wrote:
>>>
>>> Ha! Had forgotten all about this mailing list!
>>> I still use Linux at home. Was an Arch Linux user for a while but I
>>> stopped coding and getting my hands dirty with the system, and maintaining
>>> Arch became too much of a chore!
>>> Been using Fedora for maybe two years now, but I do miss Arch's package
>>> manager, and user repository.
>>> Steam Windows games compatibility is pretty decent now.
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 16:35, Kevin Groves via Kent <
>>> kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Been somewhat distracted with numerous projects over the last few years.
>>>>
>>>> While trawling one discarded project to bring back to life I notice
>>>> KLUG
>>>> hits 20 years old on this mailing list system in November. Of course it
>>>> is older than that as I previously ran the mailing list one another
>>>> platform.
>>>>
>>>> Wow, where has that time gone and how different Linux has become.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, back to the slumber ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Kev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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