11-20-2018, 08:34 PM
Looking good.
Another aspect worth emphasizing is the future proof features of the distro, including the road map and easy upgrading within the series. I suspect there are still many on 3.x that are unsure whether the upgrade can be achieved without risk to their installation.
Something else to think about on the same theme, but longer term, is facilitating an easy migration from one series to the next, well before 5.0 arrives.
What will be especially relevant in that time frame is the end of extended support for Windows 7 being January 14, 2020, when all updates will end.
That will mean there will be a large wave of users unhappy with the prospect of Windows 10, and looking for a stable, future proof alternative, during 2019.
Like many others, my migration from Windows 7 to Linux is still in progress, but I would say I have now reached a point of commitment, where contemplating a complete rebuilt would be unthinkable, without an appropriate error proof plan to get from one series to the next. Without loosing user data and functionality in the process. Which is what has tended to happen in recent years with Windows.
So I'm hoping by the time 5.x come around there will be an easy, reliable and perhaps even automatic migration method in place. Even if part of that method is to use an external USB hard drive to temporarily store all user data and configurations. After all, external USB HDs are relatively cheap and ubiquitous nowadays. If that could be achieved then you really could say you have a future proof system.
Another aspect worth emphasizing is the future proof features of the distro, including the road map and easy upgrading within the series. I suspect there are still many on 3.x that are unsure whether the upgrade can be achieved without risk to their installation.
Something else to think about on the same theme, but longer term, is facilitating an easy migration from one series to the next, well before 5.0 arrives.
What will be especially relevant in that time frame is the end of extended support for Windows 7 being January 14, 2020, when all updates will end.
That will mean there will be a large wave of users unhappy with the prospect of Windows 10, and looking for a stable, future proof alternative, during 2019.
Like many others, my migration from Windows 7 to Linux is still in progress, but I would say I have now reached a point of commitment, where contemplating a complete rebuilt would be unthinkable, without an appropriate error proof plan to get from one series to the next. Without loosing user data and functionality in the process. Which is what has tended to happen in recent years with Windows.
So I'm hoping by the time 5.x come around there will be an easy, reliable and perhaps even automatic migration method in place. Even if part of that method is to use an external USB hard drive to temporarily store all user data and configurations. After all, external USB HDs are relatively cheap and ubiquitous nowadays. If that could be achieved then you really could say you have a future proof system.
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