From Windows 10 to Linux: a student creates a very practical tool to easily migrate his files

Despite the Microsoft maneuvers and attempts to communicationaround The end of the announced support of Windows 10it will officially take place on October 14. Since the announcement of this date, many tech players have pushed Linux as an alternative, rather than Windows 11.

After, among other actions of the same ilk, Kde’s clear statements or the countryside End of Windows 10a student from the University of Waterloo in Canada also attacked the problem to facilitate the transition of bone users soon to be abandoned.

Operese: a utility to easily go from Windows 10 to Kubuntu

Responding to Technoporg’s pseudo, this student created Operese, a utility designed for easily and quickly transfer his Windows 10 files, applications and settings to Kubuntu distribution.

The latter, based on Ubuntu with Kde Plasma, was chosen for its stability and compatibility with third -party drivers. Technoporg does not then exclude proposing to migrate to other Linux distributions with its tool, based on Rust.

Note that Optése is not yet completely finalized or available, and that it will be made open source in the coming months. For the rest, the creator, already well busy with his courses, intends in particular to add the support of the UEFI, a better translation, more migration parameters or even strengthen the reliability of his solution. This is still already promising, especially for people little comfortable with computers and whose PC is not eligible for transition to Windows 11.

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