The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-function...
  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’d love to see a Linux distro attempt to implement a migration wizard for Windows users. Do all the heavy lifting for them, including walking them through what personal data and accounts they want to migrate across, creating a bootable USB installer, then running said installer and copying across their data for them. Maybe even detect and install any apps they’re using, or suggest FOSS alternatives. In practice I imagine this would be a nightmare to try and implement effectively, but it’d be pretty cool to see.

    • Scoopta@programming.dev
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      The copy across their data for them honestly sounds the most difficult just because of the free space requirements and juggling the partitions. It would only work for users that had 50%+ free space. There is a tool called ntfs2btrfs which may be an option but in place filesystem conversions scare me, maybe it’s reliable. Otherwise you have to leave them on NTFS or erase their data which are both less than ideal.