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: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @12:25AM (1 child)
My colour laser worker didn't "just work" under Ubuntu, ever. Then it needed a new imaging unit, so I dug out the old DeskJet 9800, which works with pretty much every OS on the planet.
It also required a re-install from scratch (couldn't even recover it manually with a bootable version) last month on an attempt to upgrade. It totally crapped out the hard disk and required a repartition and reformat.
I'd NEVER seen any system ever do that badly before. Not linux, not bsd, not windows, not dos.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 31 2020, @11:12PM
An officejet under mxlinux 19 was really plug and play, That is, I booted with the printer connected through USB, i summon CUPS to configure it and the printer was already there, and working. Previously I found an entry for a wireless printer that must be in my neighbour apartment.
OTOH if you configure it manually as you have already hooked it up, it presents you with three drivers to choose from, and the first did not work. Nothing a motivated 10 year old cannot figure out though.
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