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Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by pound_heap@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi! I'm seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I've been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing, tinkering with some self-hosted stuff that is on separate hardware.

I don't like the way Ubuntu is moving with snaps. And LTS version falls behind too much. So I decided to move to Fedora.

My plan is simple:

  1. I will install Fedora on a fresh nvme drive. I want disk encryption, so I'm going to have LUKS over btrfs for /home, and the root will remain unencrypted.
  2. I will copy all files from old /home to new /home, with the exception of dot-files.
  3. I plan to make use of flatpaks, so I don't think configuration for my apps is easily transferable. I'll have to install and configure apps from scratch, unless I'll have to use an RPM package.

Does all of this make sense? Is there a way to simplify app re-configuration in my case?

And as I never used Fedora extensively (booting from live image doesn't count), are there any caveats I should be aware of?

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[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't move to Fedora. They are Red Hat and recently shat all over Free Software principles and broke the GPL by making Red Hat Enterprise CLOSED SOURCE.

They are dead to the Linux and Free Software world. You'll be going from bad to worse.

I HIGHLY recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. It's based directly on Debian (one of the oldest distros ever and the best), is Free Software loving and 100% Community. No Greedy Corp Inc in sight.

It runs the excellent Cinnamon desktop and the Mint team have set up all the apps etc perfectly. And because it's Debian it's super reliable and has massive amounts of apps etc .

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Imagine working on big parts of the Linux desktop and projects just use your source code and build exact clones off your Distro, while all the developers you pay need the income to keep contributing to awesome modern software.

It is difficult but businesses are asked if Linux Desktop needs money, not hobby users.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This has been solved for the most part: https://github.com/popey/unsnap

The few system snaps for things like Gnome updates shouldn't impact performance.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Great tool! Funny that after removing snapd all those mounts appear. Afaik a reboot solved this for me, did it on a Ubuntu install already, and everything works fine

[–] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, if you like Ubuntu but dislike Snaps, Linux Mint might be a better choice than Fedora if you're not as comfortable with Linux. Mint is basically "Ubuntu without all Canonical's garbage."

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do not use Mint. Ubuntu uses GNOME which is modern and secure. Mint will need a year or so to get Wayland support, and it will always be behind on security updates. Just run unsnap, install the apps and Gnome tweaks you want I would say.

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why is using Ubuntu against it's nature, by removing snaps, preferable to moving to a distro that aligns more with OP's preferences?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

You remove snaps thats it. No custom repos or old X11 desktop

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Enable rpmfusion for media codecs and things like libdvdcss or unrestricted mesa drivers: https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/installing-plugins-for-playing-movies-and-music/

Fedora comes out of the box with a curated flatpak repo. You might want to replace that with flathub: https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora

Imho, there's no reason not to enable disk encryption for root. Luks configuration during setup is very straightforward.

If you don't have nvidia graphics, enable uefi and secure boot (no legacy options). Fedora works well with it out of the box.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

This is essential. sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld may already be enough if you dont need ffmpeg for anything.

Or you use ublue, where rpmfusion and ffmpeg are preinstalled.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I want to write a script for this app config backup stuff once. Also working on Windows, but maan I have low motivation on that one haha.

You can use your configs, relevant for me are

  • firefox: ~/.mozilla/firefox can stay if you keep using Fedora Firefox
  • thunderbird ~/.thunderbird/ copied to ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird
  • libreoffice from somewhere to the flatpak directory (useful if you have a custom dictionary, autocompletions or interface)
  • qgis, element

Many other apps use the same structure with a profile folder so easily transferrable.

In firefox and thunderbird you either delete the whole contents and replace everything, or you only paste the contents of your *-default-release folder in the new default release folder, after deleting its contents.

Flatpak apps need to be ran once, to create the ~/.var/app/ subfolder. After that you can close them and replace everything. If you delete that folder, or move it somewhere as a backup, the settings are reset to default. Pretty cool.

If you want to try the new image-based distro model, I can highly recommend ublue and their installer. It has all the codecs out of the box and also an nvidia version which will never break basically, if it should, you can roll back to your previous system that worked.

It is a very cool distro model, and ublue has loots of customizations. If you never tried KDE I recommend their kinoite-main (do not use any -nokmods, these images are outdated as they removed kmods from -main !)