{"id":76,"date":"2017-10-07T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:02:56","slug":"things-to-consider-when-changing-your-linux-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Things to consider when changing your Linux system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working in Mint for the past years, but I somehow feel I should be running Debian. So after trying it in a Virtualbox for a while, I have decided to go ahead. It takes a thorough preparation though: I need to make sure not to loose anything or any any functionality. Apart from all the usual applications I need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Audacity<\/li><li>(ca-certificates)<\/li><li>Calibre<\/li><li>Chirp<\/li><li>Citrix Receiver<\/li><li>(dropbox)<\/li><li>Emacs<\/li><li>Filezilla<\/li><li>(fonts)<\/li><li>Freemind<\/li><li>(git)<\/li><li>Inkscape<\/li><li>Kazam<\/li><li>(keyboard compose key)<\/li><li>(lame)<\/li><li>(Libreoffice spelling)<\/li><li>Midnight commander<\/li><li>Notes<\/li><li>Openshot<\/li><li>Oracle VM Virtualbox<\/li><li>(pavucontrol)<\/li><li>PDF-Shuffler<\/li><li>Pencil<\/li><li>Plume<\/li><li>R\/Rstudio<\/li><li>Remmina<\/li><li>Scribus<\/li><li>Shotwell<\/li><li>Skype<\/li><li>Sweethome3D<\/li><li>Team viewer<\/li><li>VLC<\/li><li>(VPN\/network-manager-openvpn-gnome\/openvpn)<\/li><li>Xournal<\/li><li>yEd<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=33&amp;t=32709&amp;sid=b34dcd5d9ea95165b5d5cd0a55db9a00\">Scrivener!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They all seem to work in Debian, so functionality should be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we need a good system and data backup of course, but we also need to ask a couple of questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Am I able to reproduce all the user\/password combinations saved in Firefox,?<\/li><li>How am I partitioning my drive(s) and assigning mount points?<\/li><li>Do I have a good checklist for configuration changes I did on the old system that help me work well?<\/li><li>Is there any hardware that needs additional drivers? Am I able to find these drivers and set things up?<\/li><li>If I use bookmarks, have I got a backup?<\/li><li>Do I want to encrypt things? How about backups if I do?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(more to follow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working in Mint for the past years, but I somehow feel I should be running Debian. So after trying it in a Virtualbox for a while, I have decided to go ahead. It takes a thorough preparation though: I need to make sure not to loose anything or any any functionality. Apart from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}