Switching from Windows guide

[Jonathan Jesse]

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> Hi,
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> * 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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>> 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.
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> 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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Including on the CD on the website I guess would be fine with me, if we
can get it there.  I just think that while it might be more of a
"marketing" doc then system documentation it is important enough to
include and maintain so people that wnat to switch will be able to go to
one source and find information there.

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Jonathan Jesse