SwitchingFromWindows Guide

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Monday 19 June 2006 14:08, Venkat Raghavan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Monday 19 June 2006 13:20, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > We talked in the Doc Team on Friday about some of the documents that
> > I have proposed for Kubuntu
> > (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuDocs/Edgy) and one of the documents
> > I mentioned was a Switching From Windows guide.
>
> This is a good idea, though I will not be able to contribute much on the
> Windows side of things as I dont use Windows. I might be able to handle
> the Ubuntu/Kubuntu conversion though.
>
> > Some of you may
> > recall that in the midst of the Dapper Release, Riddell passed along
> > a website created by somoene who uses Kubuntu in regards to switching
> > from MS Windows to Kubuntu and had a list of steps on what to do
> > etc...  Well this document was not a high priority and as the book
> > started got placed behind aschedule.  (I don't even think it was
> > validating correctly last time I looked at it.)
>
> Is this link the same as
> http://wiki.motin.eu/HowToComfortablySwitchFromWindowsToUbuntu
>
> > One thing we talked about at the meeting was whether there would be a
> > need for a speicfic guide, one for Kubuntu and one for Ubuntu or
> > something we can have in the generic or commen forlder.  I am arguing
> > for a specific Kubuntu based version of Switching From Windows and
> > something that we can then publish on help.ubuntu.com.
>
> As we all know, the CLI stuff will remain the same (there is not much on
> the wikipage). However, the gui ways of doing things are vastly
> different and so I would think that we would need different guides.
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> Right now, I am not sure if I can commit any time to this, but I will
> let you know as soon as I know!
>
> Regards,
> Venkat

I don't remember the exact link anymore :(  but thanks for the input and also 
for volunteering for some help. :)