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Conversion from Windows to Linux Ubuntu 11
cochinada:
Hi,
I apologize if this was already answered but I've searched the forum with the most obvious keywords and couldn't find it.
I have a Windows license and an old MC22 that is running just fine but I'm sick and tired of Windows with it's never ending updates and interferences so I would like to give Linux a try.
As I read that "Media Center 28 for Linux is developed on Debian Buster - support for distros other than Debian Buster, e.g. like Ubuntu and Linux Mint are not officially supported by JRiver!", my choice would be Debian Buster.
Which exact version, I'm not sure because I also read that "Debian 10 has been superseded by Debian 11 (bullseye)."
First of all I believe I would have to purchase a new license but this time for Linux or upgrade to a Master License that works on all three OS's. Which one is cheaper I don't know yet.
What I would not want is to have to configure everything from scratch because of this migration, as it took me a really long time to get where I am now and moreover I forgot what and how I did it as it was years ago.
Not only I imagine the configuration/setting up of MC to be an issue, but also keeping the whole directory structure I have on disk untouched. BTW, I have two disks: one for the OS and the other for data.
This disk surely won't even be recognized with a different OS, so I guess I have to format it (maybe this will been taken care of during the Linux installation automatically?) and then figure it how to copy my backup data with the minimum fuzz.
Has anyone already gone through this same path? What were the obstacles and how to deal with them?
Thank you all in advance!
JimH:
You can purchase a Linux license as an upgrade from your current license.
cochinada:
--- Quote from: JimH on February 26, 2022, 07:40:46 am ---You can purchase a Linux license as an upgrade from your current license.
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Nice to know.
I found it here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,129290.0.html
cochinada:
--- Quote from: cochinada on February 26, 2022, 07:47:14 am ---Nice to know.
I found it here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,129290.0.html
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Now all that remains is the ease of the migration (or not).
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: cochinada on February 26, 2022, 07:00:36 am ---As I read that "Media Center 28 for Linux is developed on Debian Buster - support for distros other than Debian Buster, e.g. like Ubuntu and Linux Mint are not officially supported by JRiver!", my choice would be Debian Buster.
Which exact version, I'm not sure because I also read that "Debian 10 has been superseded by Debian 11 (bullseye)."
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Even though it's not officially supported, Media Center works fine in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian Bullseye. Even distros like Fedora (which is what I use), OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, etc. works just fine. Jumping to Debian Bullseye would be fine in this situation.
--- Quote from: cochinada on February 26, 2022, 07:00:36 am ---This disk surely won't even be recognized with a different OS, so I guess I have to format it (maybe this will been taken care of during the Linux installation automatically?) and then figure it how to copy my backup data with the minimum fuzz.
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Actually, if the partition file system is FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, or something else chances are Linux will support mounting and reading those partitions created in Windows. If I had to guess if you left the formatting option in Windows as default, it's probably NTFS and Linux has support for it. Supporting write on NTFS partitions might be a little tricky though, depending on Linux distro being used, however the Linux kernel recently landed a new and vastly improved NTFS driver but it hasn't landed in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint yet (and likely won't land in Debian for awhile, so ntfs-3g would be the alternative). I'm using it in Fedora and the new NTFS driver works wonderfully. Regardless I'm almost certain that you won't need to reformat your drive and you should be able to mount it in Linux (via the Disks app if your distro includes it or manually via fstab).
As for migrating, it depends, you might encounter problems when migrating. The disc structure in Linux is different than it is in Windows, for example there's no drive letters or anything like that. There's a couple threads here on the forums with users detailing their experiences migrating from Windows to Linux, so it might be worth searching for those. Also even though Media Center for Linux is closer than ever at feature parity with Media Center for Windows but there are a few potential dealbreaking missing functionality, like Media Center for Linux doesn't support reading and ripping CDs yet.
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