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How to Properly Switch Distros? (social.tath.link)

submitted 1 year ago by maxerature@social.tath.link to c/linux@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 points 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.


            
          