Installfest

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+title: "Spring 2025 Installfest"
+date: 2025-04-02
+tags: [events, installfests]
+author: LUG Board
+---
+
+Free Pizza will be provided!!!
+
+The Linux Users Group (LUG) at UCLA invites you to attend the quarterly Linux
+Installfest! Please fill out the RSVP form to indicate your pizza preferences.
+
+* Date: 2025-04-11 (Friday of Week 2)
+* Time: 6-9 PM
+* Location: Engineering IV (room TBD)
+* RSVP: [link](https://forms.gle/6XRzGgdqXddJJ76L9)
+
+## General Info
+
+LUG hosts a quarterly installfest on Friday of the 2nd week. We will start by
+giving a presentation on Linux to get newcomers up to speed. Then, attendees
+will be provided a USB drive and guided in dual booting their computers with
+Linux (most likely Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint). However, you are welcome to
+bring your own flash drives and install any distro of your choice. Or if you
+don't feel comfortable with the possibility of losing their data, you can set
+up a Virtual Machine instead.
+
+This time around, we have various Dell Optiplex workstations that we snatched
+from the med school's e-waste (lol).
+
+The officers will also be doing a show-and-tell of their own hardware which
+they have installed Linux on. Experienced users are also encouraged to show off
+their own setups.
+
+At the end, we'll have a SuperTuxKart LAN party with our freshly installed
+Linux machines.
+
+## Past Installfests
+
+You can view pictures from past installfests [here](https://linux.ucla.edu/zenphoto/).
+
+## Note on Apple Silicon (M1-M4) Macs
+
+Due to their custom Apple silicon, the only Linux distro which works on M1/M2
+Macs is the experimental Asahi Linux. There is no support for M3 or M4. You
+still have the option of setting up a Virtual Machine to run Linux so feel free
+to come and chat with us!