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On 08/02/2020 16:12, mr meowski wrote:
It will partly work but you'll run into a whole bunch of problems you weren't expecting, which is exactly what these instructions take care of! Bear in mind this is exactly the sort of thing I'm paid to do all day every day so I didn't pull this methodology out of my ass, this is "The Linux Way" of doing things. You're obviously using Linux and are going to spend far more time wondering why things aren't working properly and trying and failing to fix them afterwards if you just blindly start dumping random files manually back and forth on USB. Your call my friend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, lots of information and help there. My first reaction was to run for the hills. However, that will not help so ....
I have a desktop computer. Wife and daughter each have laptops. All three are set up with MX 19.
I treat all three machines as quite separate and independent. Every year MX Linux has a new version ready. This requires a full installation, not an upgrade. So I take each computer separately, copy the necessary files and folders (eg documents, pictures, profiles) from the current version on to an external HD. Then, on each machine, I run the new installation, copy over the above folders and files, install any extra programs that aren't automatically included with the install and away we go. Never had any problems with that.
I can see that in this case each machine is treated as a single, stand alone, computer. This time I am talking about adding a second user. Perhaps this will make a difference.
Meanwhile, I will do some research into SSH, since I have no knowledge about it at the moment. But, are you really saying that, because this time it will be a second user on to the laptop, that I could have problems, whereas, previously, on each machine with just the one user it was all fine?
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