Hi, Linux! I’ve been using Linux for many years now, but haven’t moved distros in awhile. I’m considering it now, and I really would like to migrate over all my customized system and software settings. So far, I am thinking of backing up everything that begins with a dot in my home folder, all of my systemd service files, and user/root crontabs. I know this is missing some things, but I’m not sure what. Any advice/warnings/examples people care to share?
You could start by having /home on a different partition. So that you simply can mount it in your new system and have the same settings and files as previously.
This would be a big help, and I used to do that. I’ve actually heard that this can cause some problems between distros though.
My biggest problem with it is forgetting which system I booted into when I use the same desktop environments :P and yeah configs can get out of date and inconsistent but I usually just blow them away since I’m not into customizing my desktop much
Can’t give you any “advice” other than to “just let it happen” – you’ll need to get those linux commands written on your forehead anyways. i.e don’t backup anything, rewrite/reinstall the whole thing from scratch until you’ve memorized (at the very least) 80% of it.
t. Did this exact thing for a couple months.
