Windows 11 → Ubuntu 24.04

Switch computers without losing a thing

Ferry backs up your files, turns the same USB drive into an Ubuntu installer, and puts everything back afterwards — your files, Wi-Fi, apps, bookmarks, even your wallpaper. No technical skills needed. Free.

Download for Windows See how it works

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) · about 3 MB

Three steps, one USB drive

Plug in a USB drive and click through. Nothing on your PC is erased until your backup is checked.

1

Back up

Ferry finds your own files — not Windows' files — encrypts them with your password, copies them to the USB and checks every one.

2

Install

The same USB now starts the Ubuntu installer. Restart your computer from it and install Ubuntu.

3

Restore

Open the USB in Ubuntu and double-click Restore with Ferry. Enter your password — everything comes back.

What comes back

Not just files. The things that make a computer feel like yours.

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Your files

Documents, Desktop, Pictures, Downloads — and your folders on other drives. They land in a Restored folder on your new desktop.

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Your apps

Ferry lists the apps you installed yourself and installs the Linux versions for you — with one Ubuntu password prompt.

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Wi-Fi

Saved networks and their passwords reconnect by themselves. School and work networks just ask you to sign in again.

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Browser data

Firefox bookmarks, history and saved passwords move straight across. Chrome, Edge and Brave bookmarks come back as a file to import.

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Your look

Your wallpaper and dark mode follow you, so the new system feels like home from the first minute.

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Cloud copy — free for now

Worried about losing the USB? Keep a second encrypted copy in Ferry's cloud: up to 50 GB, kept 30 days. Manage it here.

🔒 Encrypted on your PCAES-256 with your password, before anything is copied or uploaded.
🙈 We can't read your filesYour password never leaves your computer. Not even Ferry can open your backup.
✅ Checked before anything is erasedEvery file is verified. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.

Download Ferry

Free. Runs on the Windows PC you're moving away from.

⬇ Download Ferry for Windows
  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • A USB drive bigger than your files plus about 7 GB for the Ubuntu installer (Ferry tells you the exact size before it starts)
  • Your USB drive will be erased first — use one with nothing you need on it

Windows may show “Windows protected your PC”, because Ferry's installer isn't signed yet. Click More info → Run anyway. Signed releases are coming with the open-source launch.