Comments on: A home user’s successful migration strategy from Windows to Ubuntu

By: Orcris

Orcris — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:57:11 +0000

I might have said this before (I don’t temember), but I did everything you said not to do. I burned the ISO (back when Ubuntu was still on 10.10) and replaced Windows on the first day. Then I aggressively started learning BASH scripting.

I would recommend your approach, though. It seems much more beginner-oriented than mine.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:35:01 +0000

Thank you for all your work and good reading!
I’m a noob and inexperienced and lazy. Also I do not have any burn cd’s or usb close by. I’ve used daemon tool to mount the ubuntu iso and it’s just like a cd. Also I have both windows and ubuntu. Just used a whole day to get the new Ubuntu working. Had a black screen issue. And though it may be that I should have given up I lay here with my comouter feeling proud for dealing with the annoyance myself. Thanks for good tips!

By: tianwen

tianwen — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:36:36 +0000

Kubuntu is my choice !!~~ It is eXcelldent!~ when you find Kubuntu,you will forget windows os forever!!~

By: Orcris

Orcris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:46:49 +0000

I switched to Ubuntu at the beginning of the year, since I decided to try to learn as much as I could about computers. I took an old computer sitting in my attic, and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (the latest version at the time). After that, I uninstalled Windows ME and installed Ubuntu. Everything worked right away. I completely stopped using Windows and installed Ubuntu on all my computers. Now that computer’s hard drive has failed, but just diving in worked fine for me when I decided to try Ubuntu, and I uninstalled Windows and installed Ubuntu on all my computers (though I’ve now switched to Kubuntu).

By: Dave Watts

Dave Watts — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:08:16 +0000

ooops…Thankxs Unbuntucat…not pyschocat…lol :)

By: Dave Watts

Dave Watts — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:02:46 +0000

Wow! Now why can’t I get all this info from Ubuntu? I am so pleased I ‘stumbled’ across your tutorials. I was just about to blindly partition my net book hd which, I am sure, would have caused all sorts of havoc! I feel much more informed, now, and will be able to make good choices because of your website. Thankxs, psychocat :)

By: Stephen Brown

Stephen Brown — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:49:10 +0000

Thanks for the tutorials.

I switched to Ubuntu 2 years ago and dove right in.

There was some pain along the way but it was well worth it to break the Windows velvet chains.

I now use Ubuntu 10.10. I find the Unity interface really irritating. I just want to get to get to my tasks at hand. I’ll keep trying it when I have the time.

Speaking of “tasks at hand” I love the workspace set up in Maverick. I often have all 4 in use and can switch back and forth with one click.

I have developed a website to encourage people who want to switch to Ubuntu. My target is people who are in about the same place I was 2 years ago.

That want to try Linux but are put off by the process and need a little push. I listed your site as a resource. Hope that’s OK. I’m not quite clear on the copyright/trademark policy yet.

Thanks again for the resource.
Love the cat picture.

By: cbemerine

cbemerine — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:32:41 +0000

Great advice. Eventually you will need new hardware, please do yourself a favor and ONLY PURCHASE from a LINUX hardware VENDOR. You can search them out, but my suggestion is ZaReason. (I do not work for them, nor make money from them, just buy their excellent Linux/Windows compatible hardware)

I have personally met the family that runs the company at SCaLE (best Linux trade show in the world and the least expensive) in Los Angeles. I have purchased multiple PCs, netbooks from them and have been surprised that even with shipping their solution is often cheaper than others. And everything just works out of the box!

If you buy hardware from ZaReason, it will run Windows if you want too. However if you buy hardware from a big box store the opposite may not be true. Especially with cell phone vendors (ie. Handheld smart devices) best to just avoid them and find hardware that is NOT vendor-locked in. They purposefully use proprietary chip-sets in their dumb phones so that you can NOT configure/install software on them. Any phone/handheld/tablet that will not let you have full root access is DUMB! Without full root access you will be limited and prevented from installing something that you want to use on the device.

So get the best of all worlds, open hardware that will run both open and proprietary software. Just say NO to all other solutions ~ its smart!

Hint: There are both Linux tablets and Linux handhelds available that are open, fully root-able (smart devices) that will enable you to configure the device to suit your needs. Hey you bought it, you should be able to configure and install software on it, right? Right!

Another thought, Proprietary vendors will NOT buy their vendor-locked-in hardware back from you when they decide to stop supporting it will they. Why fill up the dump, open hardware can be donated to organizations for use in other areas…again its smart. After all there are Linux distros that will run in less than 512MB of RAM, even as low as 256MB of RAM and lower. (More RAM memory for software applications to run faster.) Thankfully even Windows 7 will run in 2GB of RAM, unlike Vista.

Remember: No Root ~ not Smart ~ NO PURCHASE.

By: Fixit Man

Fixit Man — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:48:17 +0000

ABSOLUTELY good advice. Particularly, the Wubi install when you get to that point, can help, as Window is only a reboot away on the same machine if absolutely needed, or to learn to use Linux/Ubuntu in your spare time while keeping your Windows untouched for normal, everyday use until you are ready to switch for good.
What’s more, using this approach, if drivers are not supported, etc, or something messes up, you can reboot into windows and simply remove Ubuntu from there and try again.
Thumbs up to the article, and to Wubi!

By: Carloxic

Carloxic — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:36:54 +0000

You really cannot say that the experience is radically different.

Radically different is android-symbian, car-motorcycle, etc.

I would even dare say ubuntu is the closest u can get to windows…

I agree that it’s a big change, but it’s definitely not radical.