So, as I have blathered to many people, I just recently built a new PC for my father.

The physical construction went great, and I was able to get Win7 64-bit loaded on the first attempt.  The major malfunction, however, came when I tried to trust windows to do the restoring file copies..

After three attempts at copying from Win7 to Win7 other both wired and wireless networks, I broke down and pulled out my Ubuntu laptop.  Two clicks, and a 15-second automatic download from the repos later, my workbench looked like this:

The files then proceeded to transfer both speedily and easily.  I’m really impressed with how easy I was able to set up a windows share in Ubuntu – and in how much more efficient the file transfer went as opposed to between the two Win7 machines.

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