NMGLugers, So, use 'sudo apt install chromium-browser' or your "Software Center" or other gui to add the Chromium Browser for the jitsy sessions. We all noticed a heavy use of CPU and memory during the session with Chromium, so I hope you have at least 4 GB ram or better, 8 GB or more. The Web and web apps have become very demanding. You can still do "rocket science" with less, but video and audio and whatever else isĀ going on in a web conference seems to have heavy requirements. Thank you, Ted P.
On the other hand you can jump into IRC using a 20 year old computer! I still use https://irssi.org but there are other options that might be more familiar. Hexchat, Pidgin, Weechat and of course through a browser https://webchat.freenode.net
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat
There are thousands of users and channels to lurk in https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode
We are channel #nmglug
Jason