OP has multiple fediverse accounts and posted the same thing to communities on all of them. Either they’re deliberately spamming, or they don’t really understand how this stuff works yet.
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.
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.
As a new Linux user at the time. I hated the look of Ubuntu 09.04 - 10.10 compared to Windows, but the netbook couldn’t run Windows for the life of it. I swapped back a more normal desktop around 11.04
You know, archlinux has an install script that’s pretty easy to run nowadays, you should try it, that way you won’t feel the bitter taste of prior failures as strongly as you do now
Well I’ve fixed it but it’s these types of bugs that really put off a windows user like myself off of linux, having yo look through a very small part of a website 10+ years ago to find a solution, I can go on, I just wanted to give some light on the situation, and yes the drive was mounted hardware is 100% in working order and is new hardware talking SSD everything just saying before someone says that it’s hardware related
It inspired me to move on. I’m running OpenSUSE now. I don’t really want to be involved in RedHat-related products in any way. Between redhat and the talk of telemetry, I’m out.
My needs for a work station and my needs for a server are different. For a work station it needs to work without getting in my way, and my metric to compare it to is Windows.
Does it crash?
Does it force me to use a (Microsoft) account?
Can I use it and install it offline?
Does my software work?
So far their decisions do not impact these questions for me, nor change the answers to them.
Their decisions have impacted my servers though, and I am waiting on Alma to see how they move forward. Sticking with them so long as its binary compatible with another distro. But if they can’t do that I’ll migrate over to Debain for the stability.
Desktop, I feel I would need to go into the weeds more than want to, to get arch configure like Fedora, or to move back to a Debain base OS and get my usability back.
They let their SSL certificate expire so many times that it became a meme. If I remember correctly it has happened four times.
Just set a fucking reminder lol.
I used to use Manjaro when I first transitioned to Linux from Windows. I think it’s okay. Their mission makes sense, when you consider the grub-crashing that happened a few months ago, Manjaro wasn’t affected.
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.
It shouldn’t as long as you make sure that the numeric uid/gid of your user account matches the one from the original system. If that’s not feasible then you can chown the tree.
Hmm, this is actually something I will be fixing from the last time I repurposed this PC. What exactly do you mean chown the tree? I know what chown is, but what does tree mean in this context?
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
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