SwitchingFromWindows Guide

[Jonathan Jesse]

Mathew,

I see your point in this guide.  Part of the reasoning for including this
document in svn would allow for a complete guide to be on both the DesktopCD
which would help those making the switch and also on help.ubuntu.com under
the official documentation.

Does that make sense?  I do see your reasoning why it might be helpful to be
on the wiki, but by placing it on help.ubuntu.com along with the other
documentation it might be a bit more visible?  Also we could publish this
guide through lulu.com along with the other books as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Paul
Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 6:52 AM
To: Ubuntu Doc List
Subject: Re: SwitchingFromWindows Guide

On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:20 AM, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> We also started a wiki page 
> (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/SwitchingFromWindows) that has grown quite 
> large and is focused only on Ubuntu.  I am proposing and have started 
> working on (based on svn commits just cleaning up things and creating 
> a structure) this guide.

I think this is probably not a good idea, because by the time someone 
would be able to read such a document conveniently, they will have 
already installed Ubuntu/Kubuntu, rendering much of the document moot. 
Information like this would be very useful, but on the help wiki, not 
shipped in Ubuntu/Kubuntu (which I assume is the reason for putting it 
in svn).

(On the other hand, a self-contained guide would be useful if it was 
likely to be distributed *in printed form* with a substantial 
proportion of Ubuntu/Kubuntu installations; that would be another way 
of letting people read it conveniently. But what are the odds of that?)

> ...
> 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.
> ...

This may not be a helpful answer, but using bzr would make this 
question much more easily answerable. :-) Ubuntu and Kubuntu branches 
could be developed in parallel, merging generic improvements from each 
other while retaining DE-specific differences.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/


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