I’ve been using PopOS! using KDE for a while now, and although I like it, I want to use the kubuntu backports, because there are a number of truly great features that I can’t access, including features as simple as multicursor in Kate.
As such, I want to switch to kubuntu. My first step will be moving /home to a different partition from /. This won’t be that bad, and I should have done it this way in the first place. Once I have this done though, what is the right process to change distros? I understand that I will need to reinstall most programs and drivers, but can this be done simply? Is apt clone
the right thing for this? How can I carry over all my settings from Pop to kubuntu? It wouldn’t be a truly massive pain to move things over, but it would be time consuming.
Advice would be appreciated! Thanks much!
- Quazatron@lemmy.world5·1 year ago
- Get an external HDD or SSD drive and put your home partition on it;
- Get a fast USB pen drive (or another external disk drive, if you want) and put some random distro on it;
- Boot from your the USB drive;
- Login as the default distro user and create your user;
- Mount the external home partition on your /home/user directory;
- Apply a bit of chown and chmod magic if necessary;
- Login as your user and try the distro;
- Wipe the USB pen and burn another random distro;
- GOTO 3.