I am just trying to convert my old windows machine and copy the partition on a new disk much larger, cause the other one was almost full, and it is not that easy even with the right software.
For me linux is another chance to work with another OS and try to learn this OS, but if someone tell me that Linux will replace Windows, i will say no way, Linux shure have it's properties and problems, but the more i use the Ubuntu Studio interface, the more i find it difficult to go fully to linux, it is never like windows in terms of app, and user friendlyness as windows.
Shure there are some nice apps in linux but i use it mostly for music production and management of my instruments and hardware that i have, but if you compare the two, windows win without a doubt for it's easyness of the interfaces and possibility's that the window offer.
I install Ubuntu studio and try to have a linux share over the network to save my backups and disk images that i made, i have no more room anymore for those backups, and one of the old drive that i use has just died, so i put 2 2tb drives and 1 320gb drive for linux ubuntu studio and share the other 2, but installing Samba and configuring it took me about 2 days, before it work.
So unless you are very familliar with the Kconsole and the linux command, you will do like me struggle to find out why that thing did'nt work in the fisrt place. So if ever linux or any distro of linux want to gain market share, they will gone have to arrange some sort of standard and try to get rig of the kConsole as much as they can, and bring some standard command from the kconsole to a GUI interface, cause there is no way that people without knowledge of computer manipulation can go true linux and give up after only a short time. That is the big advantage of windows they, over the years manage to put some standard MSDOS command and bring them to the GUI interface to facilitate the user experience while using Windows.
I like the Ubuntu studio, i think it will do the job, but there are no shortcut, i have to learn the kconsole command to be able to install the linux to my liking. So for now i will use the 2 OS and will see in 2025 what the hell append then. That should be interresting.
Thanks have a good week and enjoy your window while you can.