20 Jun
2020
20 Jun
'20
4:10 p.m.
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
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