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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    3 days ago

    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.