Linux Users' Group Edinburgh Meetup — November

EdLUG's monthly Edinburgh meeting, in Teaching Room 10 on the second floor of Old College — first entrance on the right as you come into the quad. The format is open: people bring laptops and work through whatever is broken, and the group trades notes on distros, shell scripting, desktop customisation, server management and self-hosting.

There is a show-and-tell strand too: hardware projects, open-source replacements for everyday software, and which machines run Linux cleanly. Beginners are explicitly welcome — several regulars arrived wanting help moving off Windows or macOS. The group also runs a public mailing list at lists.edlug.org.uk.

Free, two hours, no speaker list and no programme.

Why go: this is one of the few Edinburgh rooms where you can turn up with a broken GRUB or a driver problem and leave with it fixed by someone who has seen it before. Best for sysadmins, self-hosters and anyone moving a daily driver to Linux.