Yay! Finally!

You would think that Microsoft and Apple would have driven people (and companies) running to desktop Linux; given the endless stream of things like:

• Windows updates causing SSD (and even hard drive) failures,
• the inability to prevent updates,
• updates causing crashes and bugs,
• the surreal surveillance-state crap that Microsoft Recall is
  (really, you need to look into Recall)

Just a simple web search for 2025 Windows update breaks returns enough to scare someone.

Yet, no widespread push-back came until Microsoft announced that many users would be forced to update their hardware; or even buy new computers!; just to install Windows 11. And most users will be forced to install Win 11; since Win 10 support is ending in October 2025.

      Force. Force. Force.

Some people just don't like to be forced. Like Linux users.

So a ground-swell of groups have popped up to help Windows and Mac users to move over to Linux. Once and for all.

Success Stories

This thread will discuss some of these efforts and the results. There are some large undertakings; such as German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice; but most of these will be relatively small … working with 10-12 users at a time.

This is really how it should be.
AI People helping People.
Often for free.

July 12, 2025 Linux Repair Café

Interesting stories:
They have a young installer who is 13 years old (with a high IQ). Installing Linux definitely seems to be one thing that he likes to do :-)

Future plans:
They plan on continuing these events on a regular basis: twice a month.

For more info, contact:
Peter Heijink

August 17, 2025 Linux Install Party in der KlimaWerkStadt

Interesting stories:

People have various reasons of coming to us. Either not being able to afford a new PC or just wanting to be able to use a working machine as long as possible. Some old PCs also had really cool features (like DVD drives or locking mechanisms on the lid) that people were fond of. Some people also were participants first; and then came back to later events to pass their experiences along to new people.

Something about the KlimaWerkStadt in general as I'm not only using their rooms for the events but I'm also volunteering in the weekly repair café. The KlimaWerkStadt is a place where people can come together, share knowledge and help each other. The KlimaWerkStadt and the umbrella non-profit (KulturPflanzen e.V., which roughly translates to "culture plants non-profit") organize seminars, talks, the repair cafe, regular workshops for woodworking or textiles and many more events.

Future plans:
Events are held on an ongoing basis.

For more info, contact:
Jeroen

August 27, 2025 Linux Install & Android Liberation Party

Interesting stories:
Our attendees this time were seasoned Linux folks, stopping in to see what was going on.

Mostly we discussed our home media server setups over beverages and chips. The second topic that we discussed was the risks that come with using Microsoft products.

in the past, we've had an embedded systems company come to try to find Linux talent.

Future plans:

We have to improve our promotion effort to reach more people outside Linux related circles. We thought we'd achieve this with a radio show in which the translator of endof10.org website into Slovene was a guest (here is link to the recording of the show, but it was in Slovene: https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/konec-desetke).

We also recorded two jingles for the endof10 campaign at Radio Student, that invite people to the Linux install party; and the jingles are rolling on the Radio Student.
International: https://toot.si/@g1smo/114915897815575348
and Slovenian: https://toot.si/@g1smo/114941646941392349

They have two more scheduled events:

Last Wednesday of September:
https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c890037a-4e31-4c60-bf54-e79fef33c6a2

Last Wednesday of October:
https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/42494bcb-5686-4361-88ff-7fd7d58b02c1

For more info, contact:
Lio