[sf-lug] SF-LUG November 2025 Mtg, PST timechange, Linux replacement for Win11?

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG November 2025 Meeting notice - for 2025-11-02 mtg
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this upcoming Sunday,
November 2nd, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM Pacific _Standard_ Time.
The change from PDT to PST will occur early on the selfsame Sunday
morning, so please remember to change your watches and clocks one hour
back accordingly :-)


Quoting the still current SF-LUG webpage www.sf-lug.org [01]
(current as of this writing) :
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* virtual remains:
https://meet.jit.si/sf-lug.org
Browser: one will need sufficiently recent version of, e.g.
Chromium, Chrome, or possibly Firefox - in any case one that well
supports WebRTC.
Dial-in (audio alternative or audio only): +1.512.647.1431
PIN: 524 338 639#
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OTOH, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> still has his highly relevant
comments available for review within his June 2024 posting [02] on the
actual Jitsi Meet "requirements".

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If any of you reading this possibly wish to start meeting in-person again
-- and are physically able to do so -- at SF's Cafe Enchante, please feel
free to respond on this mailing-list and inform others similarly
interested before this Sunday's meeting :-]

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Earlier this week, there was a DistroWatch Weekly column entitled
'Questions and answers: Advice for new Linux users' [03] with its lead-in
first line as "Roll-out-the-welcome-mat asks: With all the new Linux users
coming over with the End of 10, any advice for the Linux newbies?"

Anyone reading this willing to share their own observations about what
current (or recently past) Windows 10 users are _really_ installing on
their devices to deal with this 'End of 10' [04] ??

Still keeping in mind the Windows XP-era caution that 'Linux is NOT
Windows'[05], are such Windows 10 users really migrating to...
- Linux Mint [06] ?
- Zorin OS [07] ?
- one of the various more direct *buntu distros, e.g., Ubuntu[08],
Kubuntu[09], Lubuntu[10],... etcetera ??
- PCLinuxOS [11] ?
- the popular Debian-based distro MX Linux [12] ?
- other not-yet-mentioned-above Linux distros, e.g., those mentioned
within ZDNet pundit Jack Wallen's '7 most Windows-like Linux distros - if
you're ready to ditch Microsoft' [13] ?

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-Aaron


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REFERENCES
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[01]https://www.sf-lug.org/
[02]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q3/016114.html
[03]https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251027#qa
[04]https://endof10.org/
[05]https://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
[06]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
[07]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=zorin
[08]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
[09]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kubuntu
[10]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu
[11]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pclinuxos
[12]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx
[13]https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-most-windows-like-linux-distros-if-youre-ready-to-ditch-microsoft/
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