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A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and programs from Windows to a brand-new Kubuntu installation. It's still very much a work in progress, but in my biased opinion, it already doesn't look too shabby!

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 day ago

It’s nice to see someone working on a migration tool hopefully, we’ll see more

Very nice! I'd been thinking there should be a standardized guide for switching, but this is so much better!

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Good luck to the dev! I think this will be a good tool to help some, and for the rest, hopefully we can get them onto something that fits them better (Mint, Aurora, etc.).