On 08/02/12 09:40, Peter Reutemann wrote:
How much pain does one have to endure when switching from Kubuntu to Mint? Anyone have any stories to share?
Well, if you've got a separate /home partition, then it's not really an issue: simply wipe the old installation and mount your existing home partition. If you use the Ubuntu-based version of Mint, then you can always install your beloved KDE applications (I'm very fond of Okular's annotating functionality).
BTW I'm still using Mint Katya, as the Gnome 3 support is not yet fully "mint". ;-) Though the Cinnamon (Mint's Gnome Shell fork) APIs are deemed to be fully stable now: http://h-online.com/-1420266
Cheers, Peter
I was thinking more about the specific configuration that I have set up, mostly in /etc and /usr/local. The machine I'm thinking about is my home office server, which also doubles as a workstation. It has had Kubuntu LTS for the last 2 releases and whenever I upgrade there is always something that needs reconfiguring (package no longer available, new version with different config file, etc). I suspect that changing distro will require setting this all up from scratch again. How foolish would it be to point apt at the Mint repos and do an upgrade? (Next time I have a day to waste (yeah, right) I should probably clone the disk and try that.) Cheers Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 09 9735603 http://www.componic.co.nz