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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] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The page should just be a list of steps to switch. Each step should have very specific resources listed for if that step goes wrong. It should not give options. It should just have one distro, and say exactly what to install.

I guess it wouldn’t hurt to have something at the top listing a few scenarios where you’d have to stick with Windows.

Might dissuade people, but the list could be “smart” if you had checkboxes at the top that list activities the user currently does. Then the list would include steps to tell the user how to do that in Linux instead of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not going to happen, FSF will never endorse distros with any blobs or proprietary software, not even in the repos, and most people don't care about software freedom, but do care that their wifi card works

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] is @[email protected] correct? Or would you endorse such distros in the interest of getting people off of windows?

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