[wellylug] WellyLUG Future

[Bruce Hoult]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Michael Coleman <
michaelcoleman500 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hard to know why the enthusiasm isn't manifest like it used to be,
> possibly?
>
> * linux users are too much of a minority
>

That's certainly not true. According to Google, there are over 2 BILLION
monthly active users carrying Linux-based devices in their pockets.


> * hard to get talks that aren't kind of "distro" specific.
>

Maybe.


> * maybe linux has matured to the point that people no longer need help
> with hardware and installing? :)
>

Definitely. Most people don't know or care that the device in their pocket
is running Linux -- and so are the vast majority of the servers it talks to.


I came to wellylug meetings regularly thirteen years ago when I had a gf
who was super keen getting weird hardware (mostly laptops) working with
Linux, writing KDE documentation etc. WIFI, audio, and ethernet were
particular bugbears at the time. Audio and ethernet seem to be solved
problems now :-) :-)

Me, I just use Linux every day, on everything from ARM-based watches and
phones (Tizen is Linux too) and the Raspberry Pi range and Odroids, to my
quad core 1.5 GHz RISC-V "HiFive Unleashed" board, to my i7 NUC or i9 tower
at home, to servers at SiFive (since last month .. previously at Samsung
Research Institute Moscow from April 2015 until last month), to a 24/7
t2.nano and occasional m5.{12,24}xlarge or c5.{9,18}xlarge at AWS when I'm
building a lot of stuff.
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