Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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    Isn’t everything in dot files in home? Create package lists and export them, add dot files.

    Or keep home on a seperate partition or drive.

    New installation, import package list.

    This seems straight forward to me.

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      I’ve never tried it, even if I know people are using it.

      Still it’s not an easy solution like the one people are using when upgrading from an old to a new iPhone.

      I know Linux doesn’t have Apple behind, but it’s better than Windows/Mac in every other way, so why not try to improve this?

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        I am not sure whats to improve, it is just a situation where it is easy if you know how.

        As for the iphone, the amount of trouble that process has caused me is not trivial. Things are not the same! I would put it as more complicated. People are just used to dealing with it. Part of the issue with the iphone is applications and Icloud crap.

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      Yes, but to folks accustomed to using SuperDuper to create bootable backups, it does not seem so straightforward.