Walk up any time
Three attractions along the north wall, open from the moment the doors open until they close. No sign up, no session to catch, nobody will quiz you.
Distro tasting bar
A distro is one packaged version of Linux. There are hundreds, and the differences that matter are mostly about how the desktop looks and how much it decides for you. Six small machines sit on the bar, each with a different one installed and its name etched on the lid, so you always know what you are looking at.
Sit down, open the browser, open a file manager, move some windows around. Ten minutes at each machine tells you more than a week of reading comparisons. Someone at the bar will tell you what the machine in front of you is good at and what it is bad at.
- Bazzite, Fedora or one of its Universal Blue cousins such as Aurora, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, and a new arrival from the Arch family, Omarchy.
- Nothing you do at the bar is kept.
- Tell us which one you liked and the disc table will hand you that one.
Old hardware, new life showcase
A table of machines that were given up on, running well enough to use for work. Each one has a card next to it: what year it was made, what was wrong with it, what was spent on it, what it does now. Several of them cost nothing but a memory upgrade.
Bring the laptop in your cupboard that got too slow. Someone will look at it with you and tell you honestly whether it is worth reviving, what it would take, and what to do with it if the answer is no.
- Diagnosis is free and takes a few minutes.
- We do not keep your machine. Nothing leaves the table.
- Responsible recycling information for anything genuinely finished.
Hardware swap table
Bring parts you are not using, take parts you need. Memory, drives, cables, adapters, keyboards, single board computers, whole machines if you can carry them. Most of what changes hands here is a cable somebody needed and somebody else had four of.