Switching from Windows guide

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Jonathan Jesse:
>> On Dec 18, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Matthew East wrote:
>>> ...
>>> So here is a suggestion: we take the current version of the guide and
>>> put it somewhere safe so that it can be used for marketing, if
>>> necessary. Then we take the bits which can be relevant to the system
>>> documentation and merge them into the "New to Ubuntu 7.04" section. We
>>> also take the bits which overlap with other current system
>>> documentation and merge them into those.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>> ...
>> Agreed with all of those. :-)
>>
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>> Matthew Paul Thomas
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> I would like to respectively disagree.  I think this guide as a whole
> should be maintained and even released/created for Kubuntu as well. 
> Whether or not it falls under the term of "marketing" or not is something
> that I'm not really worried about, but I feel that a guide in whole should
> be a part of the documentation as a separate complete guide the way it was
> structured for Edgy, which is why I've spent time working on the Kubuntu
> version of it.
> The reasoning behind it is that if my brother who has never used *ubuntu
> or *nix wants to try things out and make the switch where does he go to
> learn how to switch?  I think this guide would provide that point.
> I know the Official Book doesn't go in some of the detail (such as
> importing contacts, favorites, email, etc) that the Ubuntu version and
> hence the Kubuntu version will go.

I don't think I disagreed that this guide should be maintained, in my
original post.

But you do understand that there is no point including this document in
the system documentation? What's the point including instructions about
why to switch, preparing to switch, and installing in systems where the
user has already made the switch?

I like Phil's idea of including the guide in the LiveCD a lot more,
potentially even to appear when the user inserts the CD on a Windows system.

However, in its current form, it doesn't fit appropriately with the
topic based structure we are trying to promote, we have to remove the
overlaps if it is going to be included in the system documentation.

Matt
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