I recently got parts for a new computer and am building it soon. But i realized that my old motherboard doesn’t support the new m.2 SSDs. Can i just do a fresh install in the new SSD the manually copy over the $HOME file to keep my settings?
Usually, yes
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Usually? What could cause issues?
What makes you ask?
Usually there is no issues - the phrase usually is an adjective to describe an operation expected to be without incidents; the phrase is taking into account time and place and unforeseen incidents beyond our control.
Examples are powerspikes, loss of power, an improper seating of a device, a forgotten screw that shorts everything, a defective disk and a lot of other weird stuff - take a pick.
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Okay. I was just nervous and making sure there wasn’t a setting or something i needed. Thank you so much for answering this so quickly!
One pitfall - I can think of is the $UID of the user in question.
getent passwd $USER
Quite often a Manjaro Linux installation is a single user system and thus the copy will work because the user id is the same.
However - if it is a multiuser system - you need to ensure that users are created in the same sequence for the respective user ids to match.
If your system is a single user - the thought situation is not applicable.
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Single user only
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