How to migrate Ubuntu to new computer?

[Stephen Partington]

To follow up here a clean install is my suggestion as well. Backup and
restore of your user profiles is pretty straightforward also.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:02 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Agree here, cloning disks on linux haven't worked for me in 20 years,
> particularly doing anything like raid, encryption, or lvm.  Start over and
> just get a base os working.
>
> OS is fairly irrelevant outside of sysctl's and services loading from etc,
> but meshing between major revisions or distributions here is problematic at
> best.  Clean build is best.
>
> I've imported my homedir's lock stock and barrel across versions and
> distributions, to some varying success over the years, but I always run
> into weirdness that leads me to largely blow out my home directory in doing
> so too.  If I nuke my system to go to another, I largely manually rebuild
> it each time.  I also try to re-document anything new, as invariably I'm
> doing something with new hardware, mobo, secure-boot, and just general
> distro weirdness, so it's often worthwhile to do so for next time, or at
> least some good start to remembering what I did to make something work.
>
> Again, clean is best.  Chrome has profile imports, most messaging means
> too, rest I'm not adverse to rebuilding from logins to things I need.  I
> get weird issues across even google profile imports, but it's much harder
> to nuke that and start over, sadly enough.
>
> Ubuntu hasn't upgraded cleanly for me between any revision since 10.04, so
> I just presume I'm rebuilding it during an upgrade one way or another, and
> often end up doing some major mods due to ubuntu blowing up an upgrade
> horribly.  I tend to now look at it as an opportunity for improvement
> procedurally, but manual rebuilds afford me some "do-overs" I do not
> discourage...
>
> Why I run Arch now with rolling upgrades - I've not had to "start over" in
> years now, even with major kernel, graphics, and DE changes.  Ubuntu on my
> XPS has been a general disaster since upgrading from 16.04 on it which
> worked mostly, then going 18.04, even upgrading to 18.10 it's still a
> basketcase.  Wayland replacement seems mostly the root cause.  Feels like
> when they shat Unity upon the public randomly.
>
> My goal is to get arch working on the xps too.  So far, I haven't had such
> luck sadly, so still stuck with ubuntu for it at least for now.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:30 AM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> IHMO, you are better off doing a fresh install to save yourself the
>> headaches and time. Especially if you have SSD drives. Just 7zip your home
>> directory, and use the many ways of transferring files today to the new
>> computer. USB, Google Drive, rysnc, netcat, DVD.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:37 PM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> first thing I would try is to clone the disks and stick them in the new
>>> computer and see if it boots.
>>>
>>> it would help if you could give the specs of the old and new computers
>>> what motherboards, how many disk's, memory and video cards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:03 PM Stephen Elliott <tnflyfisher at live.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do I migrate the full Ubuntu 18.04 os, setup, and data to a new
>>>> computer?
>>>>
>>>>
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