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How can we help FSF with their "Upgrade From Windows" campaign? (upgradefromwindows.com)

submitted 3 days ago by onlinepersona to c/opensource

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Right now their page https://upgradefromwindows.com just redirects to https://www.fsf.org/windows which has a wall of text and an infographic. Even I, who doesn't have windows and will never reinstall it unless forced, clicked away from the page within 5 seconds. The FSF desperately needs help with marketing and design, plus it would be great to have tooling for brain-dead linux installation (no, find distribution, backup, put linux on a USB-stick, reboot, hit some button to get into the BIOS, select "USB stick", reboot, click through installation, find alternative software, is not brain-dead).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I have the greatest hope in Valve for getting users away from Windows. The best way to get more users to adopt Linux is to have it preinstalled on their device. 2nd best option is to manage to brainwash semi-techsavvy users to swap over, and I'm hopeful SteamOS could do that once it's properly released.

From there it's hopefully going to get some more momentum to grow

[–] onlinepersona 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So do you think this effort is wasted or that the energy should be redirected to something else?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nah, the community effort has gotten us where we are now - just that Valve is our best hope at the moment for mainstream adaption