17 Apr
2018
17 Apr
'18
5:06 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:32:55 +0100
Paul Tansom <paul(a)aptanet.com> wrote:
If you don't mind the trek, we have monthly meets
with talks (most of
the time, if I can manage to find speakers now it is down to me) in
Portsmouth (http://portsmouth.lug.org.uk/). HantsLUG has ended up in
limbo meetings wise, but Portsmouth is still going strong (largely
thanks to Lisi, and I am trying to keep up her good work).
Hi Paul, thanks for inviting me but Portsmouth is about twice as far as
I am happy driving these days. Age is catching up with me, although I am
reasonably fit, but the stress of driving is a bit much and it really
tires me out.
I have to say I'm Ubuntu too, more pragmatic and
easier to 'sell' to
customers as they're more likely to have heard of the name. There's a
chance the switch to Gnome will change that for my desktops, although
I'll probably end up with Ubuntu MATE.
I disliked it immensely when Debian changed to Gnome2 and very quickly
looked for alternatives, finally settled on the MATE desktop. I
don't get on with tablets or smartphones so the traditional mouse
+keyboard style will see me out. I like to have applications running
each own workspace so generally set the desktop up with half a dozen.
I seem to recall you (and others) having umpteen terminals running in
a window but never got on with that, wasn't the greatest user of the
command line although I think some things are better done that way, I
don't use synaptic for example but instead do daily aptitude update &
aptitude safe-upgrade (I am running Sid after all).
Say Hi to anyone who may still remember me
John