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How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu

20 points by edwintorok 7y ago

cgrealy 7y ago
It's interesting to consider the kind of user who's still running Windows 7 in 2020. There are a couple of options, but I'm guessing the majority are non-technically savvy people who bought a PC (probably a laptop) years ago and don't use it for much more than writing the occasional word doc. I'm guessing many of them have probably bought some kind of tablet and/or smartphone and that is their primary browsing device. In other words, most of them don't really need a full desktop OS, and almost certainly aren't going to upgrade to Linux (the majority won't even know what that is).
- LeoTinnitus 7y ago
  The majority of them are businesses that don't upgrade until they have to.
  - greenknight 7y ago
    Thats us. We are running a render grid (CUDA based raytracing) off windows 7. These machines are not connected to the internet. The main reason we dont want to upgrade them, is theres a speed hit of 10-30% of upgrading to Win10 last time I did testing. Not worth it imo.
    - ryankrage77 7y ago
      Why win7? I was under the impression that linux is the industry standard for these kind of things. A minimal/server install would probably have a much lower overhead than win7 too, although I guess most bottlenecks will be in the drivers anyway.
- Pinegulf 7y ago
  I'm one of them. (Well, hopefully not for long.) Home PC is for gaming and for that it has been quite adequate. Why upgrade when you arguably get downgrade? Yes, work is on different environment.
  - cgrealy 7y ago
    And if you're at all serious about gaming, you're not going to run linux. I mean, you could, but you'd miss out on heaps of games.
    - de_watcher 7y ago
      Wine/Proton is fine nowadays.
- samsari 7y ago
  It's not Win 7, but my father just last week downgraded his Win 10 computer to Win 8 because he - a retired engineer - is convinced that "tried and tested" means that an old OS is a more solid and reliable OS than a newer one.
phosphophyllite 7y ago
Will ubuntu hang up in frozen state after huge sql query in psql ? (without tools like earlyoom) (Yes, it will) How in 2020 ubuntu (and linux-desktop in general) can be recommended as desktop operating system when it can't protect Xorg/Gnome/KDE from swapping out of RAM? And you forced to use earlyoom and again drawn in some more configuration. Also, snap packages are failure on idea level: people just need simple base system and sdk, without complicated security and other overcomplicated nonsense. Back in the days ubuntu developers gained momentum in linux-desktop, but now it's lost.

20 points by edwintorok 7y ago

It's interesting to consider the kind of user who's still running Windows 7 in 2020. There are a couple of options, but I'm guessing the majority are non-technically savvy people who bought a PC (probably a laptop) years ago and don't use it for much more than writing the occasional word doc. I'm guessing many of them have probably bought some kind of tablet and/or smartphone and that is their primary browsing device. In other words, most of them don't really need a full desktop OS, and almost certainly aren't going to upgrade to Linux (the majority won't even know what that is).

LeoTinnitus 7y ago
The majority of them are businesses that don't upgrade until they have to.
- greenknight 7y ago
  Thats us. We are running a render grid (CUDA based raytracing) off windows 7. These machines are not connected to the internet. The main reason we dont want to upgrade them, is theres a speed hit of 10-30% of upgrading to Win10 last time I did testing. Not worth it imo.
  - ryankrage77 7y ago
    Why win7? I was under the impression that linux is the industry standard for these kind of things. A minimal/server install would probably have a much lower overhead than win7 too, although I guess most bottlenecks will be in the drivers anyway.
Pinegulf 7y ago
I'm one of them. (Well, hopefully not for long.) Home PC is for gaming and for that it has been quite adequate. Why upgrade when you arguably get downgrade? Yes, work is on different environment.
- cgrealy 7y ago
  And if you're at all serious about gaming, you're not going to run linux. I mean, you could, but you'd miss out on heaps of games.
  - de_watcher 7y ago
    Wine/Proton is fine nowadays.
samsari 7y ago
It's not Win 7, but my father just last week downgraded his Win 10 computer to Win 8 because he - a retired engineer - is convinced that "tried and tested" means that an old OS is a more solid and reliable OS than a newer one.

phosphophyllite 7y ago

Will ubuntu hang up in frozen state after huge sql query in psql ? (without tools like earlyoom) (Yes, it will) How in 2020 ubuntu (and linux-desktop in general) can be recommended as desktop operating system when it can't protect Xorg/Gnome/KDE from swapping out of RAM? And you forced to use earlyoom and again drawn in some more configuration. Also, snap packages are failure on idea level: people just need simple base system and sdk, without complicated security and other overcomplicated nonsense. Back in the days ubuntu developers gained momentum in linux-desktop, but now it's lost.