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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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:49PM (1 child)
My gripe over the last 20 years is that Linux has always been ready for the desktop, just as much as Windows or Mac has. You have always been able to do anything you've needed to do, but the problem is that the goalposts keep getting moved. I think driven by the late 90's Microsoft FUD most people were too scared to consider a switch, or felt it you had to be some sort of super nerd to do it. I used to see all the time (if Slashdot had any kind of decent search function (and we, of course, fail at it here too)), you'd see stuff like "I would LOVE to switch to Linux, and I totally would, except that I need to run Quicken". Another big one from then was how expensive it would be to retrain all the secretaries on how to run Linux, which was either a very ignorant statement, or a disingenuous one because the changes going to windows manager-based Linux distro is no more onerous than any major Windows upgrade (95 to NT to XP to . . .).
For whatever reason, people were always willing to take it up the rear from MS and stick with the devil they know than to try something else.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:58PM
We saw what happened when Loki software worked out a deal to develop Windows games for linux. They died. The problem is that the number of people willing to PAY for software on a free software system is not all that great. Most of them already have the equivalent software running on Windows, so you're not going to sell them another copy.
Let's take your example of Quicken, or Quickbooks. You need to be able to print, and printer support under linux is really, really hit or miss, and varies widely by distro. So scratch that. You aren't going to test software against 100, never mind 1,000 distros. Not even 10, because every time there's an upgrade to the kernel you need to test all 10 again.
One of the reasons Java ME died was because it became impossible to support every single phone out there. Linux is no better if you're a developer.
That's why you won't see companies developing too many proprietary products for linux. People won't pay for software when they're used to getting everything for free, and companies want fixed targets to develop against.
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