Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: wipe and reinstall Date: 14 Jan 2019 13:01:01 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <0fmsgf-h6d.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> <87h8eb1orp.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net ExzBx2ucXjCCxxAqaUsf1wI/sQ1K28u2Utm5RHGPw/gNNhL29W Cancel-Lock: sha1:imYSz2MmYv4VWQjBXSqTgCjqkjE= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17251 On 2019-01-14, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > RS Wood writes: > >> It's not as easy to wipe a Linux partition and restore these days, > > I don't know why you say so, I don't have any such problem. I just migrated onto a new PC and sidegraded from Linux Mint 17 Mate to Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon, decided that Cinnamon is a heap of cack and went back to Mate without any particular problems. I do use Firefox and Chromium sync, so that was trivial, copied and restored an Evolution backup, so that was easy, and copied all the non-dot files from ~ on the old machine to the new one. Other than having to faff about due to now having a 4K monitor, it was all pretty straightforward. Although you wouldn't have thought so, judging by the amount of swearing. About the only outstanding issue is that the 'new' gedit is garbage and xed seems to have no way to easily add plugins, so I've lost all my gedit plugins for the time being. One of the big problems with FOSS seems to be this constant need to tinker with things that don't need tinkering with, without fixing fundamentals. https://xkcd.com/619/ -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 14th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3185 ~ Stercus accidit ~