[Tfug] Thinking linux

[Jim March]

>> If I find I'm unhappy with my choice, it's not like I'm dual booting. I
can just wipe the drive clean and
start over :) <<

It's even better than that.

If you copy out your entire home directory on the distro you're jumping away
from and create the same username on the new, then copy the data in, you'd
be amazed at how many settings you get to keep :).

Esp. if you stay within either the gnome or kde families.

In other words, I've stuck with gnome from dapper to edgy to OpenSuse
10.2and now to Fedora Core 6.  And in all those jumps, one hell of a
lot of
settings stayed with me.

Of course, when you copy the home dir, make sure you get all the hidden dirs
(the ones that start with a period).  And in the jump to Fedora I had to
learn how to recursively reset permissions with chmod while root to give
myself ownership of the stuff while working at user level.  The others
didn't seem to care :).

Distro-hopping is NOT hard.

Jim