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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @06:54AM (4 children)
I know this will probably be modded down as offtopic or troll or whatever but I have to say it. I read that comment and though it was really good. Then I checked the name and saw "aristarchus" and literally said "holy fuckin' shit" out loud. With a glimpse of the humanity below, my opinion of you has shifted a bit. Well done.
Now, I await your next nonsensical and over the top comment to deposit me back into my comfort zone.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday January 31 2020, @07:27AM
Wait, please read before judging. Most aristarchus posts, and submissions, are exquisitely rational. It is only the attempt to smear my posts that produces the reaction you had. So seriously, read. The TMB, lo these many years ago, thought that I was trying to paint "ironic" libertariantards like him with a broad "Rand Paul" alt-right brush. Turns out, with recent TMB fake news journals, and TMB defenses of the Traitor Trump (IMPOTUS #3!), that once again, like with the heliocentric model, aristarchus is correct.
I only humbly ask, as any and all philosophers do, that you merely listen to my theories, and make up your own mind.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @08:34AM (1 child)
There's nothing stunning or brave about an anti-M$ comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @08:34PM
Sometimes it's not what you say, it is how you say it. And that was more than just an anti MS comment anyway.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by hendrikboom on Monday February 03 2020, @04:17AM
Aristarchus is quite intelligent and entertaining, though I have my doubts about him being thousands of years old and still alive to post here.