Migration from Windows to Linux

[David Ecklein]

To all-

Thanks for the leads.  This is indeed a big subject, an elephant is in the
room, and there has been so little discussion of it.

Final clarification before I shut up and just lurk for awhile:

As I see it, there are two purely objective parts to the migration.  The
first objective is identifying parallel features and executables in the two
OS worlds (complicated by variations within each world).  The second
objective is finding the best tools and procedures to move and/or translate
files and settings from their native environments in one OS world to the
closest equivalent in the other OS world.  And, ideally, back again.

I was not addressing the third, somewhat subjective, part of  the
migration - that of the migrating user's necessity to deal with all the
system trivia and steep learning curve of the "paradigm shift", but this is
obviously important.

Dave Ecklein