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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @07:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @07:27AM (#951683)

    That is the thing, most printers now have networking as a standard feature because of the move to laptops. Every network printer I've dealt with from ~10 different brands all support IPP. I've not run into a network printer that doesn't, and even then LPD and the older protocols are all standard too. "But mine uses USB," I hear you saying. As long as it uses USB and says it is a USB printer, you can negotiate with it and use it. They all use the same base protocols. Just because your CUPS configuration doesn't have your XYZ brand 1234 model explicitly listed, doesn't mean it isn't supported as part of a family. Same goes for scanning. There are standard network and USB scanning protocols they all use, especially within families. Gone are the days where the drivers bitbanged the port with weird compression schemes and whatnot. Nobody has had the time, money, or need to reinvent the wheel for every printer for two decades now.