>spend a little time doing some homework before you start migrating. Test things out on a virtual machine or some old hardware, if you have something lying around. Study and read up about packages, package managers, file extensions and file formats. That's the way it used to be. Now, it's idiot proof. There is no learning curve. Yes, in the past, Linux had a learning curve. You needed to understand a few things, use terminal from time to time. But now everything is just point and click.