Migration Assistant

[Samuel]

No offense taken :-). I'll see how we could work in migrating from
Linux, I'm worried about how the interface will be if there's more
than one other operating system on the computer...

On 7/4/06, Chris Debenham <chris at adebenham.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 19:28 -0500, Samuel wrote:
>
> .. snipped ..
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> > - Is it worth supporting migration from operating systems other than
> > Windows and Mac OS X? I'm guessing an existing Linux user already
> > knows how to copy his home directory...
>
> I'd love for migration from other linux distros to be included.
> My mother is running pc-linuxos currently but I'd like to migrate her to
> ubuntu as some point so this would help.
>
> (This next bit is not aimed directly at you Samuel so please do not take
> offense)
> Just a point though, this assumption that Linux users are 'power users'
> and so know about things such as this is not fully valid anymore.
> There are a number of users out there that know little about the system,
> they 'just use it'.  It may be that the system was pre-installed or was
> installed by someone they know.  The problem is that the oringinal
> installer may not be around anymore so the end-user is on their own now.
> As Ubuntu is aiming at the 'common user' we can't really afford to
> assume any level of knowledge in these users and so should provide all
> we can to make life simpler for them.
>
> Regards,
>   Chris
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