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?
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.
I’m too old and tired for that!
I dunno. I like to have a fresh start sometimes. Take your documents, maybe just your fav config files, and plop them into a fresh install. Not everyone’s cup of tea but I like it.
You’re not going to be able to take anything for granted. Get a new disk, load out the whole new distro on the new disk mount your old disc and start copying stuff over. Services aren’t just going to copy you’re going to need the binaries and all their dependencies. Then they’re dependencies dependencies. The only sane path is to do installs and then bring your customizations forward.
