10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
3:04 a.m.
On Thursday 09 March 2023 04:34:42 pm dep via tde-users wrote:
my desktop is pretty elaborately configured. a clean
install would take a
week i don't have, followed by a year of every so often finding something
that no longer works. so . . .
> what's the right answer? is there a solid non-ubuntu ubuntu that without
> too much crowbar use runs TDE?
On Thursday 09 March 2023 06:48:36 pm deloptes via tde-users wrote:
why don't you try some of the live cds (usb
images)?
The cool thing is, you could reuse your home directory and all the tde
configuration if you wish - and it looks and works the same as on the
original PC.
On Thursday 09 March 2023 07:14:00 pm Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
Debian :-)
On Thursday 09 March 2023 08:12:40 pm Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
I've been using MX Linux
for several years now, and it works very well. It's pretty much straight
Debian, but with multimedia and some other stuff.
Install is pretty painless, especially if you
keep your home directory, which is a lot easier if you use a separate /home
partition.
Hi dep,
My requirements are basically yours. No spending weeks/years re-configuring
an elaborately tweaked system.
“Preserving Home” is an installation option with MX Linux and antiX Linux (and
probably others). As said by others it is easier to do this if you
pre-partition a separate /home and copy your existing /home to it.
My current upgrade methodology is to:
- Install the base, with no desktops, of either MX Linux (systemd-shim or
systemd) or antiX Linux (systemd-free)
- Preserve /home during the install
- Manually install TDE from the command line *
- Install the MX/antiX “Package Installer”
- Use the “Package Installer” to install all the ‘stuff’ I had installed
prior.
Total re-installation time is about 4 hours. Total re-configuration time is
about an hour.
You can do the same with straight Debian, but the package installer will save
you hours or tens of hours depending on how much software you install. I’ve
attached its file list for perusal.
HTH,
Michael
* I create shell files to do this and copy them to the installation USB so I
can then copy them to /root to execute. There’s copies of them on this
mailing list (and probably somewhere on the TDE wiki as well).
https://mxlinux.org/
https://antixlinux.com/