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You could start by having /home on a different partition. So that you simply can mount it in your new system and have the same settings and files as previously.
This would be a big help, and I used to do that. I've actually heard that this can cause some problems between distros though.
It shouldn't as long as you make sure that the numeric uid/gid of your user account matches the one from the original system. If that's not feasible then you can
chownthe tree.Hmm, this is actually something I will be fixing from the last time I repurposed this PC. What exactly do you mean chown the tree? I know what chown is, but what does tree mean in this context?
tree in this context would mean the whole directory, its files and its subdirectories. Like the whole Directory Tree.