Upcoming Linux Seminars at Public Library and Monthly User Group Meetings

[Wes Hargrove]

Hello,

I want to share some upcoming seminars that Dan Hubing (a volunteer at
the Missoula Public Library Makerspace) is hosting soon:

Linux Basics for Replacing Windows 10 (Oct 24 and Oct 25)
https://missoulapubliclibrary.org/program-calendar/linux-basics-for-replacing-windows-10

How to Install Linux Mint Over Windows 10 (Oct 31 and Nov 01)
https://missoulapubliclibrary.org/program-calendar/how-to-install-linux-mint-over-windows-10

Both seminars are aimed at Windows users interested in migrating to
Linux from Windows due to the upcoming Windows 10 EOL. I fully expect
that this group is *not* in the intended audience but you may be
interested nonetheless in Linux events happening in the community.

Furthermore, we're spinning up a monthly Linux User Group meeting at the
library following the seminars.

Linux User Group (Nov 05)
https://missoulapubliclibrary.org/program-calendar/linux-user-group

Our goal is to use these monthly meetings to foster collaboration and
provide peer support in our local community for Linux users.

As an aside, this group is relatively dormant. We are thinking about
using it as a discussion place for the community the other 30-ish days
of the month when we are not meeting up at the library. Are there any
strong objections to reviving msla-lug in this way?

Thanks,

Wes Hargrove

[Scott Dowdle]

You have my support from the Bozeman area. :)

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[lunaz]

Mine too, in Missoula!

[Michael Loftis]

Definitely not many of us left on here still active, but I would also fully support y’all using it for regular discussion again! 

Lunaz also comes in, she’s the owner of the list and … I guess I’m kind of one of the founders/IG too of the loooong gone now MLUG.

[robert bowman]

I guess I'm allowed to reply after joining the group (again?) and waiting a bit. If it works, might as well use it. The last post I see from me was in '09 and I thought it was long gone. 

[Seth McClain]

I'm up for it :)

[Wes Hargrove]

Thanks folks! We're excited to get something going again. :)

[Richard Werst]

I support having the list active, although I'm not sure what I'll have to offer...I've used Ubuntu, exclusively, for more than 20 years (without pushing it to its limits), and I'm not sure I could even find my way around one of the new Windows systems...

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM Wes Hargrove <wesleyh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks folks! We're excited to get something going again. :)

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[Franklin Marmon]

I think you probably have valuable insight into "normal use cases" :) I think some of us dove a little too deep and can't unsee the depths making it hard to assist with the sorts of problems many new users experience.

frm

[robert bowman]

On 10/12/25 18:25, Franklin Marmon wrote:
> I think you probably have valuable insight into "normal use cases" :)
> I think some of us dove a little too deep and can't unsee the depths
> making it hard to assist with the sorts of problems many new users
> experience.

It will be educational to see what problems new Windows refugees have. 
I knew more about Linux qua Linux about 30 years ago when you had to
hunt down xorg.conf to set the pointer buttons to left handed and build
almost everything from tarballs. I don't have a clue where Wayland
stores my mouse preferences and don't have enough curiosity left to find
out.

Even worse most of the tools and applications I use are cross platform
so setting up a new machine, either Linux or Windows, means installing
the same stuff which works about the same. I mean I even have dotnet on
the Linux boxes. That's left me pretty agnostic about DEs and OSs.  I
suppose if I ever got a Mac I could restore the dazed and confused feeling.