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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: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 30 2020, @04:08PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 30 2020, @04:08PM (#951228) Journal

    From the limited experience I've had with MX Linux, I like it quite a bit. I've not seriously given Ubuntu a shot in a long time, because they're so full of make it easy, they end up bloated and slow. Even with something like Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Now, if you're coming from Windows and going to a Linux, giving Ubuntu a shot, isn't a bad thing. They feeling I get from Ubuntu is a bit more like Apple, but with a bit more bloat.

    When switching to a new version of Windows, it's more likely to be my software doesn't work on the new version of Windows. In which case, it's a lot more likely that Wine may actually be able to run it on a Linux machine. PlayOnLinux, isn't just for games, it's a great tool that can be used to make a lot of Windows software functional on Linux.

    At the end of the day though, people tend to go with whatever they know. Until some Linux machine can make people excited about getting it, people won't want something else to deal with. A lot of Linux issues are coupled with poor hardware/driver support for the newest thing. Kind of a chicken and egg problem. If it just worked, I would give it a go, but without the demand, there's no incentive for software/hardware companies to support Linux.

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