Switch Distributions Quickly - How to Backup and Restore Your Configurations - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Mr.
Actually, no. No, you should not be using Chromium. There is no point in using Chromium in my opinion. I am not a Firefox fanatic, but Firefox has always performed better than Chromium for me, and the reason why you do or at least should use Chrome is the first-party proprietary editions that make Google services run faster.
I suppose other than the extensions. Why use Chromium? If someone uses Chrome, I imagine at least 60% of the time it is because they need to use it or have a reason of doing so. Most people are content with whatever Browser their system comes with. That is why People still use the Edge. They will download Chrome because they know it is faster and better. And then if they switch to Linux, I think many noobs will still use it because they notice initially that Youtube may not always work out of the box, depending on the Distro they chose.
Now, why would one want to use Chromium? it is fully FOSS, unlike Firefox, and it is, to my understanding, the Arch Linux of browsers. You should use Chromium if you don't care about google services running at 50-70% capacity, because they are greedy tyrants that want all your data.
Edit: Sorry, but that comment just set me off. MOST people use google services now. Google drive and google docs, etc. are becoming very popular. More people use YouTube than ever before, etc.
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Actually, no. No, you should not be using Chromium. There is no point in using Chromium in my opinion. I am not a Firefox fanatic, but Firefox has always performed better than Chromium for me, and the reason why you do or at least should use Chrome is the first-party proprietary editions that make Google services run faster.
I suppose other than the extensions. Why use Chromium? If someone uses Chrome, I imagine at least 60% of the time it is because they need to use it or have a reason of doing so. Most people are content with whatever Browser their system comes with. That is why People still use the Edge. They will download Chrome because they know it is faster and better. And then if they switch to Linux, I think many noobs will still use it because they notice initially that Youtube may not always work out of the box, depending on the Distro they chose.
Now, why would one want to use Chromium? it is fully FOSS, unlike Firefox, and it is, to my understanding, the Arch Linux of browsers. You should use Chromium if you don't care about google services running at 50-70% capacity, because they are greedy tyrants that want all your data.
Edit: Sorry, but that comment just set me off. MOST people use google services now. Google drive and google docs, etc. are becoming very popular. More people use YouTube than ever before, etc.
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ippos_khloros
This is probably a very noobish question but... what _are_ config files? I understand that they're for system and application settings. But that's still a bit vague. What sort of settings get saved in config files? If I don't do a lot of power user tweaks to my OS, do I need to care about them? If I import them into a very different ditro or DE, could it cause that distro to break?
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This is probably a very noobish question but... what _are_ config files? I understand that they're for system and application settings. But that's still a bit vague. What sort of settings get saved in config files? If I don't do a lot of power user tweaks to my OS, do I need to care about them? If I import them into a very different ditro or DE, could it cause that distro to break?
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Aaron
The BEST way to distro hop:
1: Make a /home and a / partition and make it Ext4.
2: Use AppImage and standalone apps and store it on the /home partition.
3: Install Timeshift and put it on the /home partition.
There you go! Now you can distro hop without losing data, and switch between distros using timeshift!
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The BEST way to distro hop:
1: Make a /home and a / partition and make it Ext4.
2: Use AppImage and standalone apps and store it on the /home partition.
3: Install Timeshift and put it on the /home partition.
There you go! Now you can distro hop without losing data, and switch between distros using timeshift!
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Marian05
I just saw your video and to be sure:
This trick is working on any distro and dosen't matter if is Arch,Debian,Ubunt etc?
Configs are configs, right? Maybe I am wrong but I seen the name of packages in ubuntu are not the same with Arch, well similar but not the same. And that's why I am asking.
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I just saw your video and to be sure:
This trick is working on any distro and dosen't matter if is Arch,Debian,Ubunt etc?
Configs are configs, right? Maybe I am wrong but I seen the name of packages in ubuntu are not the same with Arch, well similar but not the same. And that's why I am asking.
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Ludawig
I prefer doing a clean install and just copy the important config-files over like chromium, thunderbird, firefox, zsh, bash, etc. . But I don't do a lot of hopping around. Can there be problems with different program versions? For example coming from a new to an old KDE/Plasma or Gnome version?
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I prefer doing a clean install and just copy the important config-files over like chromium, thunderbird, firefox, zsh, bash, etc. . But I don't do a lot of hopping around. Can there be problems with different program versions? For example coming from a new to an old KDE/Plasma or Gnome version?
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Pavel
Hi, thanks for your video! Could please advise howto make as much closer copy of one Ubuntu instance on another server? I have a production server on AWS and would like to have another VPS for testing from different service provider. How to copy software configuration to another hardware?
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Hi, thanks for your video! Could please advise howto make as much closer copy of one Ubuntu instance on another server? I have a production server on AWS and would like to have another VPS for testing from different service provider. How to copy software configuration to another hardware?
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aurora2319
Big thumbs up, man, in less than a year, you've become a true Linux pro! and such a great advocate.
Quick tip, you can press Ctrl+d to log out.
Other than that I love the colors (and I'm jealous) of your /user/Debian prompt and new studio.
You rock!
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Big thumbs up, man, in less than a year, you've become a true Linux pro! and such a great advocate.
Quick tip, you can press Ctrl+d to log out.
Other than that I love the colors (and I'm jealous) of your /user/Debian prompt and new studio.
You rock!
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rblibit
QUESTION: Do coders RELIGIOUSLY place all config data in the config directory? Is that always the standard in all Linux Distros? Thanks. One more short thing, Can we hunt down and hang the schmuck that invented the Windows Registry?
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QUESTION: Do coders RELIGIOUSLY place all config data in the config directory? Is that always the standard in all Linux Distros? Thanks. One more short thing, Can we hunt down and hang the schmuck that invented the Windows Registry?
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Jan
Hey could you maybe make lutris troubleshooting video. I realy do not know where to get help. btw quick question if I find game corrupted and want to delete it and lutris is not deleting the data, it is ok to dele whole bottle?
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Hey could you maybe make lutris troubleshooting video. I realy do not know where to get help. btw quick question if I find game corrupted and want to delete it and lutris is not deleting the data, it is ok to dele whole bottle?
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Perhaps
On Windows, I use zip and unzip, frequently.
I did not know, until you mentioned it in this video, that for Linux, zip does not maintain file permissions. So I will avoid using it, in favor of tar.
Cheers!
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On Windows, I use zip and unzip, frequently.
I did not know, until you mentioned it in this video, that for Linux, zip does not maintain file permissions. So I will avoid using it, in favor of tar.
Cheers!
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