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I just bought a new computer. I'll install fedora silverblue. Do I just need to copy the home directory? And crontab. What else do I need to move?

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thx.

Meaning, backup a list of flatpak apps and reinstall them on the new machine

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See if flatpak has some sort of export format that would let you install everything the same on the other machine. Some package managers have that.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I wrote a function for that a year ago, I'll have a look

[–] boredsquirrel 3 points 3 months ago

Export the wanted ~/.var/app/ folder to keep flatpak data

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

If you set up flatpak as --user, bringing your home directory over would be 99% of the job.