Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: wipe and reinstall Date: 14 Jan 2019 00:17:11 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <0fmsgf-h6d.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net lzCfnZl6nOQHwl0UYBtGxQJT+jezXQAiCLcbWZl1EGivEYSTE4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eQXKHdzNYhqrPzYpTtAghGUGKRY= User-Agent: Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; 168b179 git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17241 On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:16:48 -0500, RS Wood wrote: > Then, Firefox helpfully starts you out with a "fresh" profile, which > takes a while to reconfigure (I think they want you to use their Firefox > sync service, which in truth would've saved me some hassle - I've begun > using it now - but introduces security questions of its own). > > Lastly, it might've been a permissions problem - looking into that now - > but little of my cinnamon install transferred correctly. Very annoying! > > I remember in the days of fluxbox, mutt, and sylpheed you could very > easily backup $HOME to a USB key, wipe your Linux install, and then > reinstall $HOME from your USB key. Those days seem to be well and over. > Too bad! Don't think FreeBSD would've saved me any time either, it > seems to be the way modern Linux apps are configured. I use FreeBSD, and I wipe and reinstall on each upgrade (but I leave the partition with home directories alone). After system installation, I restore $HOME for root, and anything relevant in /usr/local. Everything seems to work fine and has done for years. I use Xfce and claws-mail (so, sylpheed essentially). -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org