<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">Raul's new resolution is a minimalist desktop. I'll talk about my choices, including distro, window manager, shell, terminal, editor, etc. And the journey to settle on those choices. All the choices are focused on doing what I need with minimal bloat.<div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce <kwlug-announce@kwlug.org> </div><div>Date: 2021-01-02 3:52 a.m. (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: kwlug-announce@kwlug.org </div><div>Cc: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> </div><div>Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Simplified Desktop with Xmonad,
3NWeb revisited (Jan 2021) </div><div><br></div></div><br>Surprise! KWLUG is off to a quick start this year, because this Monday<br>happens to be a regular Monday and not a holiday one. As this meeting<br>is so close to the New Year, how about some presentations to help you<br>achieve your New Year's Resolutions?<br><br>For example, maybe your New Year's Resolution is to stop moving around<br>windows on your screen so you can see things side by side? In that<br>case, you should tune into Raul Suarez's presentation, where he will<br>tell us his journey from mundane window managers to Xmonad, which is<br>one in a series of tiling window managers that lay out windows for<br>you. Or maybe your New Year's Resolution is to ditch the gross<br>monstrosity that is the Bourne (Again) Shell for something a little<br>more 1990s? Raul has you covered there, too: as part of his desktop<br>simplification he switched from bash to the Fish shell, and says that<br>he should have made the switch years ago. <br><br>Maybe your New Year's Resolution is to self-host more things, or to<br>promote user privacy? Back in September 2019 Mikalai Birukou<br>introduced the 3NWeb project he is building, which allows you to<br>self-host file shares that respect user privacy, thus undermining the<br>giant cloudy platforms that want to suck up all of your data for their<br>surveillance algorithms. 3NWeb is close to being released, so Mikalai<br>will give us an update on the project. <br><br>In other news, we are looking for presentations for February, March,<br>and beyond. Some recent requests have included:<br><br>- A tour of free software for proprietary operating systems<br>- An overview/comparison of all-in-one packaging systems like Flatpak,<br> AppImage, and Snaps<br>- A deep dive into syslog<br>- The best options for running free software phones and other hardware<br><br>Can you talk about any of these topics, or know somebody who could?<br>Are there other topics that you would either like to see or would like<br>to present? If so please get in touch.<br><br>Once again our meeting will be held online, on our BigBlueButton<br>instance: https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug . There will be<br>no passcode. We do have a phone bridge available if people need it;<br>contact me if you would like to use it. <br><br>This month's meeting begins at 7pm. Stay safe, and we hope to see you<br>there.<br><br>- Paul<br><br>-- <br>Events: https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org <br>Blog: http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-announce mailing list<br>kwlug-announce@kwlug.org<br>To unsubscribe: https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-announce_kwlug.org<br>or email the sender of this message.<br><br>Can't make meetings? Listen to the podcast: https://kwlug.org/podcasts<br></body></html>