• @Scoopta@programming.dev
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    22 days ago

    The copy across their data for them honestly sounds the most difficult just because of the free space requirements and juggling the partitions. It would only work for users that had 50%+ free space. There is a tool called ntfs2btrfs which may be an option but in place filesystem conversions scare me, maybe it’s reliable. Otherwise you have to leave them on NTFS or erase their data which are both less than ideal.

    • a1studmuffin
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      22 days ago

      Or maybe do it via external USB drive or network location. But agree, it would complicate things. Though for light users that might only have a few GB of documents on their computer and mostly do everything in the browser, it might be crazy enough to just work…

      • @Scoopta@programming.dev
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        22 days ago

        Network location sounds impractical for anyone other than power users, maybe USB? Probably not big enough tho. Looking at my system, I have tebibytes of data and don’t see how it could work outside of an in place conversion. Ofc I’m already on Linux but if I weren’t.