Comment 216 for bug 1

Funny approach to a very serious issue !!

OSS desktop installs need to be "marketed" for what they are ... UPGRADES !!

So far I haven't been able to find a distro that will gather all the appropriate settings and data (pictures, MP3's, documents, spreadsheets, preferences, bookmaks, e-mail settings, all of it !!) from the outgoing M$ environment and put them in their propper places when the "upgraded" system re-starts.

It's too late for too many users to "start from scratch" and, no, folks will not properly backup their data to be incorporated in their new environment. The upgrade sequence needs to do it.

On the up side, 6 of 7 of my home PC's run *nix (FC4, and PCLinuxOS). My employer won't let me dump XP on my work machine.

Cheers !!