On Friday 19 June 2020 20:05:12 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: *snip* > > > > Whenever I can do a fresh installation on a new SSD, I will try to build > > a new machine as GNU/Linux Devuan with TDE from the bottom up. > > > > Bill > > *snip* > I sometimes have strange problems when I try to reuse a user dir in new > builds (ghosts in the machine). > > When I do is start with clean user and copy over, bit by bit, the config > files I need for important stuff like konqueror. Everything else I can just > readjust as I go along. > > Seems to work well. > > Good luck human. > > Kate > Yes, I do the same kind of thing ... sort of ... but after rebuilding machines with the same basic desktop (KDE3x > TDE), I have managed to streamline the process just a bit. I collect the necessary config files (and similar what-nots), save copies to somewhere on an external drive; then, when I reinstall, I just run some scripts/commands, and copy over all my personalized settings. I try to prune away the rest, but you see there was a period of a few years during which the world was in an even more uncertain situation (i.e., there was no half-decent desktop to replace KDE3), and I engaged in some brief dalliances and flirtations with lesser alternatives. Then I discovered TDE, and gradually migrated from PC Linux to Kubuntu to Debian and finally to Devuan; where I hope to remain until we humans at someday freed from our enslavement to these machines. As an unfortunate side-effect, I have picked up a lot of junk from these other sources, even though my desktop now looks almost identical to that which I created back around 2005 or 2006. So my basic idea is the same as yours, just the local circumstances have required me to adapt new methods. With my present setup, I can now recreate my entire system, with all files, a dozen hard drives, etc.; and it is all contained in a couple flash drives, with backups online as well as cold storage. If all I have is my memorized master password, then I can still rebuild everything from scratch. Also I have a flash drive that is partitioned like a mini-version of my desktop, which I can use to boot up any working computer, to use as a hardware host, and which will run like my own system. So when the Zombies come to hunt us down for our brains, I can escape to somewhere that they will *never* look (e.g., a cave up in the mountains, or the public library), and restore my world. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
