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posted by martyb on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:23AM   Printer-friendly

As a followup to an earlier blog post at Ubuntu's blog about why those on Windows 7 should upgrade to Ubuntu, the same blog has a post about how to actually do it.

A few days ago, Rhys Davies wrote a timely article, titled Why you should upgrade to Ubuntu. In it, he outlined a high-level overview of what the end of support of Windows 7 signifies for the typical user, the consideration – and advantages – of migrating to Ubuntu as an alternative, and the basic steps one should undertake to achieve this.

We'd like to expand on this idea. We will provide a series of detailed, step-by-step tutorials that should help less tech-savvy Windows 7 users migrate from their old operating system to Ubuntu. We will start with considerations for the move, with emphasis on applications and data backup. Then, we will follow up with the installation of the new operating system, and finally cover the Ubuntu desktop tour, post-install configuration and setup.

The upcoming Long Term Support (LTS) release will have not just the usual five years of regular support but an optional additional five years for those that decide to pay. That would be 10 years starting from April, 2020.

Previously:
Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on a Dell XPS 13 (2018)
How to Create a Custom Ubuntu ISO with Cubic (2018)
Debian vs. Ubuntu: What's the Difference? (2017)


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by driverless on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:07PM (3 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:07PM (#951194)

    Funny you should mention that, my mother was still on Win7 so I brought along both a Win10 machine and a Ubuntu machine for her to play with to see what she preferred. She preferred the "Windows machine" hands-down. She'd never heard of Windows Ubuntu, but found it vastly better than whatever that other horrible thing was I showed her.

    In case this gets a Funny mod, I'm not making this up. She looked at both and vastly preferred Windows Ubuntu, despite its funny name.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:21PM (#951352)

    yeah, but once m$ reaches into their "patent" and "massive user base" war chest to successfully direct the "global human mind consciousness" in a few years time, your mom will wonder why shes was left out.
    what are you gonna tell her then?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @08:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @08:18PM (#951387)

    What DE/WM? I've found that people I've tried this with prefer KDE. Although one did have a preference for XFCE, but the mouse mascot probably helped break the tie.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @05:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @05:20AM (#951658)

      Yeah it seems to be KDE.

      In my parents' case it was Lubuntu on an old laptop.