Transfer home directory?

[Alan Dayley]

Suppose you buy a new computer and want to transfer your /home/user
directory from your old computer to the new one.  In this case both
computers are running the same distro so that is not an issue.

Is there anything different to doing this beyond the usual file transfer
methods?  In other words, is there anything among the settings, etc. in a
user's home directory that would break when used on different hardware?

Alan