This is short note to report some good news. – I am helping a recently widowed friend with her technology. The most recent project was a migration from Windows 10 to UM 24.04.3 on her Inspiron 3593 laptop (purchased about 2021). I’m glad to report that the migration went smoothly. It is a pleasure to see how well this software works on a fairly new machine.
I have had really bad experiences with the UM installer on other older machines, and I was prepared to install another distro that uses the calamares installer. However, in this case, I defaulted my way through the installer and did not stress it, and it worked well. I do hope that it is improved in the future for more complicated scenarios (or replaced).
In the end, all is well, and I thought that I would report some good news.