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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, @07:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @07:58PM (#951927)

    fuck you. those walmart shopping slaves thought they were buying a windows computer or didn't understand that using linox meant "their" programs wouldn't work. It is not a reflection of the quality of linox. also who knows what distro walmart had preinstalled. many times it's some highly obscure distro noone uses, including linox users. you talk a lot of shit.

  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @08:45PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 31 2020, @08:45PM (#951949) Journal
    So tell me how that's any different from today, Where people still can't find Linux equivalents for the programs they want to run? They can't even buy an equivalent product at twice the price because of market failure - the FOSS market. People like choice. Other operating systems, you have a choice of both FOSS and proprietary software. But not Linux - that's a classic case of market failure due in part to inflexible licensing, but mostly just plain hostility from people like you who don't want others to have choices because "it's impure". The FOSS taliban.
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