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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)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:19PM (3 children)
Half a billion dollar companies like Canonical and loose organizations of volunteers like the Debian or Arch Linux projects can't compete with hundred-billion-dollar companies like Microsoft and Apple.
I'm typing this from Ubuntu MATE, and I love it. But Linux will only win over some small portion of tech enthusiasts, not the general population. No amount of nerd enthusiasm (and I consider nerd enthusiasm to be a wonderful thing) is going to offset a 10,000 to 1 resource advantage the proprietary software companies have over the free software ecosystem.
Step 1 (or step 0, if you prefer) of widespread free software operating system adoption is overthrowing capitalism.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:51PM
Canonical isn't worth half a billion. It's net income is less than $6 million a year. You want to evaluate it at almost 100 x earnings? Good luck with that. That's unicorn startup company, not a company that's been around for a decade and a half and has a history of failed blue-sky projects.
Now, if you overthrow capitalism (as opposed to regulating it) how are people going to pay developers, how are developers going to buy food (go out and barter code for eggs and milk? The code has an incremental cost per copy of $0, the milk and eggs have real costs to produce each copy, so are worth much more than a bucket of code).
There are plenty of smaller companies that feed into the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems profitably. Something that can't be said for the free software ecosystem. And there's the problem. If Shuttleworth had had any brains, he would have developed Ubuntu off FreeBSD, like Apple did with OSX, and been able to make money selling each copy.
And that would have possibly created another ecosystem for developers to feed into and make money off. Missed chance, because he also fell for the Linux hype.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 31 2020, @11:02PM (1 child)
Proprietary software does not compete with free software.
The aims are different.
Proprietary software is about keeping the user tied up. Free software is about some other things, scratching itches, giving away, building on a base that you are unable to replicate, believing in freedom.
Proprietary software isn't providing a superior alternative, if they did they would not need to actively boycott free software.
Proprietary software has to change and be incompatible, users sniff that out after a while.
As long as they keep the games, proprietary software is safe. There you have actual competition and an actual advantage for who has more resources. Same for some ever shrinking vertical markets. But for the bulk of users and business Free software is perfectly viable. It is difficult to find people who will let you free without using free software as an excuse to tie you up in their ecosystem, that's all.
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @11:33PM
Linux on the desktop? Nope. But a real Unix - FreeBSD - has been the underpinning of OSX for years. That could have been Linux except for the GPL.
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