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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 barbara hudson on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:51PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:51PM (#951369) Journal

    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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