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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 Friday January 31 2020, @02:12AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 31 2020, @02:12AM (#951565) Journal

    And yet people aren't wiping out Windows and OSX and installing linux. Ever support linux for friends you installed it for? It's a relief when they re-install Windows.

    That's the reality. Something that does 90% of what users want to do isn't competitive with something that does 100% of what those same users want to do.

    It's like toilet paper. If it only gets rid of 90% of shit, leaving you to deal with the 10% that breaks through onto your hand, it's a 100% total failure.

    You can't give away 90% "good enough" to anyone who already has 100%.

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