[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Back when, after the world didn't end after Y2K got patched and saved it, I was getting tired of Windows and none of my Macs were up-to-date enough to handle my writing workload, I gave Caldera OpenLinux a shot. Ended up compiling everything myself and used that for two years. Had a copy of MetaFrame laying around from a completed project, so I installed it on Windows 2000, and served Office apps over the network so I could use Word in Linux. I've had something running Linux since.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

To add some clarity, Pop uses GNOME and is working on their own desktop based on Rust and Mint uses Cinnamon, a fork of old GNOME that they've significantly upgraded. I've used both and like both a lot, but have come to prefer GNOME.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes! Thanks for reminding me. The ~ is a shortcut to the active users home folder? Thanks!

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dd duplicates directories. It's a terminal app. Built into all Linux distros. For more details, do a man dd in a terminal session. Clonezilla is a distro that runs a live system from USB or DVD which lets you backup and restore entire systems. Both are powerful, but have a learning curve.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely take your time and soak up more info from other sources :) I hope all of this turns out to be at least marginally helpful :D

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I'm utterly useless with base arch 🤣 If it works for you, who'm I to complain 👍

I guess I should have made that clear. Your /home directory is where everything user-related is stored in invisible folders. All your settings for the OS and applications are kept in there. So, if you copy that directory and restore it to a fresh install of the same distro, all of your settings will be restored. It's been years, but I've done it a few times.

The only thing you'll really need to do after that is re-install all of the apps you installed. Once you have, however, every apps settings are restored.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

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[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

~/boot is at the root of the drive. Your home folder should be in ~/home/username. THAT you can copy wholesale. I believe. Don't take my word for it. Deja Dup can do it for you, as well, or the entire system.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Aha! I figured it out. Comments are sequestered to the instance the user is commenting from. Federation :)

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks and sorry! I'm getting it fixed now :D

[-] tkn@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm. I can't see any comments, though I seem to be able to comment myself.

[-] tkn@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

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