[plug] new lappy, just move "home" ?

[Rod]

ive kept the same unix home for almost 10 years now.
by and large you can just copy /home/<foo> across to the new machine

the only troubles are when 'specific' applications have changed their
data formats since your last install.. so they stuff up on a case by
case basis... and you deal with that by deleting the rotters.

gnome is such a mmoving target, it usually benefits from having its old
configurations deleted... tho not always.

application configs hide away as 'dot files' in your homedir.


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:11 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> Looks like I _may_ be getting a new laptop (cause this new one is
> utter crap), I'd like to transfer my home environment with minimal
> fuss.. do you think it should just be a case of :
> logout and login as root
> kill X and GDM
> Copy it over... ??
> or is there something that I'm not thinking of that will cause a
> godawful mess on the new machine?