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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:53PM (2 children)
ubunti made the mistake to copy windows .. what is it called "UVC", "urQ" .. whatever .. that shitty dialog that pop-up in vista.
they tried to kill the (as in killer-app, a good thing) the seperation of "regular (useless) user" and "root".
unfortuantly, ubuntu threw out the baby with the bath water.
i loot ubuntu ONLY because a default install doesn't give me a user named "root". rather it gives me a "cloud" of function that belong to root that is invoked via "su" or "sudo".
maybe i am a n00b and wasn't brainwashed in a uni-environment (you apply for access) but i was "educated" the other way around (owning my own crap, top-to bottom): in dos, m$ or not, i was "root" all the time.
i learned pretty quickly to be mindfull what share- or publicware was good for me.
only later, or earlier, *nix gave me a lesser user ... for windows it was always a long and even longer battle to move "root" into the cloud.
so i never really "clicked" with ubuntu: it was just built ontop of giving "you" the illusion of being in charge but leaving "root" only as "functions" not as a real entity.
nitpicking.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @09:59PM
There is an OS for you. It's called: TempleOS
In it you are root. You are god. You can do anything.
The drawback is that you have to do everything.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday February 07 2020, @01:34AM
sudo sh