said Felix Miata via tde-users: | dep composed on 2023-03-10 03:11 (UTC): | > I would like to continue to upgrade uneventfully. I | > just don't want to get it from Ubuntu | | Now I get it. Are you limited by having only one PC, which must be up | 24/7, and no time at all for experimentation? If not, and unless it has | been reported impossible, I'd clone the current *buntu to another disk | and/or PC, and try upgrading from Ubuntu to Debian (without which *buntu | would not exist). I might even try one just for fun if no one here knows | of reports suggesting it too difficult or impossible. *buntu has some | things that differ, and plenty of embellishments, but they are probably | unnecessary to your working system, or any Debian system, which apt* | probably would report no longer needed and removable. I'm not limited as to computers, but I am limited as to time and my current configuration works -- no more taking two days to get the frigging vid driver to work, for instance (which is a non-free driver, which makes trouble with Debian; in any case, last time I did a Ubuntu-Debian the result was not pretty). I'm thinking that Ubuntu to the "free" Ubuntu -- Trisquel (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without-reinstalling ) -- might work. There's a script, last updated a decade ago, that if edited might work, and it apparently incorporates /etc/apt/sources.list. But it is also free-as-in-Debian, so who knows what it will do to non-free stuff. I've inquired as to whether it has a non-free repository. I'm hoping that the names remain the same -- security, updates, backports -- and all I need to do is change the servers (in which case I could probably even keep the genuine Ubuntu non-free repo). I've made inquiry as to the servers; with luck I can simply edit the sources.list, a little more elaborately than Ubuntu-Ubuntu but still, and then proceed as normal. Ubuntu has just been sneaking too much stuff onto my machine -- "Ubuntu Advantage," now the warning messages during security updates -- for me to be at all comfortable with them anymore. I guess I was hoping either someone here had done this or else knew of a magic way of switching over to full Debian without much pain. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
