[Sussex] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG - June 17th IRL

[Elio Crivello]

Dear Lug,

I am a 86 yrs old Linux user living in Hastings. I have used Linux for the
last 15 years e possibly more. I do not intend to return to the "Blue
Screen of death".


Unfortunately I have a very busy life and cannot dedicate the time to Linux
that I would wish, as a result I am a permanent beginner, although I manage
to do all my computing work using Linux.


At present I have a pressing problem to solve that is why I write to you
asking for assistance.

By mistake I bought 2 Asus Chromebooks (one for myself and one for my wife)
when they were on offer at half price with Lidl, some 18 months ago.

The mistake was/is that I did not realize that the chromebooks are Cloud
based and that it is not easy to install a linux distribution on it. Also I
do not wish to dual boot the Asus, but replace the OS with Gallium. Also do
not wish to use the cloud and prefer to save all my work on flash drives.


I wonder if there would be someone in the Lug who would be able to
patiently dedicate the time to help me in installing Gallium OS on the
machine so that I can finally be able to use the Asus Chromebook and in
such a way as to enable me to install Gallium OS on my wife's machine, as I
would greatly appreciate learning how to deal with the problem.


As the old Chinese saying goes "please do not give me a fish but teach me
how to fish", however as beggars cannot be choosers, I would appreciate any
help that I get.


Thanking you.


Kind Regards

Elio Crivello

PS: I came once to the LUG in Hailsham and was assisted/helped by Alex
Colquhoun, with FixParts, that must have been more than 10-12 yrs ago.


On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 at 12:32, Paul Tansom via Sussex <
sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> This month's meet will be at Broad Oak, with the usual IRL start of 1pm,
> and sandwiches will be available.
>
> I will be back as my dad died on 19th May, my current challenge is a
> trapped sciatic nerve, but I'm reasonably mobile so trying to get out
> and back to some form of normal.
>
> See you there or, well, erm, not I guess - it is purely voluntary, but
> we still don't bite and we have no plans to. (I think this still works
> with me not there!).
>
> Keep safe.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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