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Loading ...I have been completely floored by Ubuntu’s new Migration Assistant. It’s certainly something that we have needed in the FLOSS world for a long time. Anything we can do to reduce migratory hurdles is by all means welcome.
To play devil’s advocate, however, I’d like to point out a deficiency of such migration tools. To take an established example, witness Mozilla Firefox on Windows. When you first start it, you are greeted with a friendly wizard to port settings and bookmarks from Internet Explorer. If, like most people, you allow it to proceed, it will replace the carefully-selected default Firefox bookmarks (not to mention the awesome BBC Headlines live bookmark) with those from IE. The result can be a cluttered, advertising-laden (Windows Marketplace, anyone?) monstrocity that has lost the simplicity and original intent of the product being loaded.
The Ubuntu Migration Assistant potentially raises this application-level misdemeanour to an OS-level atrocity. As this review of the utility demonstrates, even the Teletubbies wallpaper of Windows XP can be migrated with ease, not to mention the aforementioned bookmarks. This can ruin the intended look and feel of the OS, thus preventing the user from experiencing the OS in a clean, ‘pristine’ state.
Is this a good or a bad thing? I’m not sure, but what I do know is that the designers of this tool should be careful to select default settings which do not unnecessarily alter the user experience. Tread carefully.
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I think it’s cool but not revolutionary, since in 1999 Corel Linux (….now reborn as Xandros) had SmartMove. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartMove
Comment by jemu — March 20, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
私はこの悪魔のようなうつ病治療と20年間苦闘しました。はじめの10年は一人でうつ病そしてもう10年はうつ病あるドクうつ病ターと共にうつ病に立ち向かっうつ病たと言っていいでしょう。それはあまりにうつ病長く、辛いうつ病治療の経験でした。しかし、その時間は私に、うつ病に対する深い知恵とうつ病の対処法、そして不屈の勇気うつ病を与えてくれたのです。そして、うつ病にさよならしてください。
Comment by うつ病 — May 31, 2008 @ 12:38 am