The only game I play is same-gnome which is a strategy game. It was on my Ubuntu 10.04 but I had to dig around for a method to install it there. When I upgraded to 12.04 same-gnome was gone. Several hours later I decided there was no good way to put it in 12.04 even though I had the .deb. Desperation took over and I decided to download an 8.10 iso where I found same-gnome in the default games. Thank you VirtualBox! It requires running a virtual machine with Ubuntu 8.10 installed but I have...

Old machine: Self built hardware (2007) from Microcenter and Tigerdirect, Ubuntu 8.04, dual boot Windows XP, two PATA drives, 32 bit.

New machine: Dell 560 off lease from Microcenter, Ubuntu 10.04.3 dual boot Windows7 Professional(preinstalled), added a drive, two SATA drives, 64 bit.

After reading 20 or so articles I decided to use the following method to transfer files for three users to a new machine.

Windows migration tool over the local home network...