Re: [News] Tips of Mitigating Migration Barriers to GNU/Linux

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out
>   this bit o' wisdom:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >
> > > 10 ways to help users transition to Linux
> > > | 2: Get users familiar with applications before you switch
> > Impossible without cross-platform apps, of course.
> Or emulators.
>
> Or conversion environments (a la cygwin).
>
> Or virtual machines.

All of which seem to be burdensome to ordinary users.

You would try to move users from Windows to Linux via cygwin?  It sounds 
horrible.
I would be interested in cases of people actually migrating using any of 
the approaches you mention.