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I decided to practice what I preach and document the Windows migration I recently enabled.
It's not as juicy, but still useful.
The person had already migrated from ms office to libre office. By pulling a ton of tricks to make libre office behave like MS Office.
This matters, because it means there was only a few application left and a bunch that could be problematic except that they were natively supported.
Cloud providers have a lot of support for Linux. Those were native.
The music app didn't support Linux, but there was a flatpak based on the website that worked well.
Their work application didn't have a native version and didn't work on Wine, but could run on Waydroid.
Their device had a build in fingerprint sensor they wanted to use. This was somewhat difficult. There was a github repo with a driver that works, but as mentioned in the readme as was one of the lucky few who also had to reset the sensor with CLI trickery. I also needed to config fprint. Warning fprint has three different commands fprintd-enroll, fprintd-delete, fprintd-list, fprintd-verify.
Replacing a loaded fingerprint requires first a fprintd-delete call and than a fprintd-enroll.
Keyrings are fundamentally fingerprint incompatible, so either remove your keyring password or don't use fingerprints otherwise you will be infinitely bothered by your keyring.
Also we made a dumb Windows-ism. We installed an english version of Ubuntu, because we wanted to be able to find system utilities from tutorials, but linux tutorials are CLI anyway.
We also misconfigured the keyboard during setup, I'll have to fix that.
The user is very happy and considers this a painless migration.
Last edited by LoudTechie on 10 Jan 2026 at 8:23 pm UTC