I’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:
- Audacity
- (ca-certificates)
- Calibre
- Chirp
- Citrix Receiver
- (dropbox)
- Emacs
- Filezilla
- (fonts)
- Freemind
- (git)
- Inkscape
- Kazam
- (keyboard compose key)
- (lame)
- (Libreoffice spelling)
- Midnight commander
- Notes
- Openshot
- Oracle VM Virtualbox
- (pavucontrol)
- PDF-Shuffler
- Pencil
- Plume
- R/Rstudio
- Remmina
- Scribus
- Shotwell
- Skype
- Sweethome3D
- Team viewer
- VLC
- (VPN/network-manager-openvpn-gnome/openvpn)
- Xournal
- yEd
They all seem to work in Debian, so functionality should be covered.
Now we need a good system and data backup of course, but we also need to ask a couple of questions:
- Am I able to reproduce all the user/password combinations saved in Firefox,?
- How am I partitioning my drive(s) and assigning mount points?
- Do I have a good checklist for configuration changes I did on the old system that help me work well?
- Is there any hardware that needs additional drivers? Am I able to find these drivers and set things up?
- If I use bookmarks, have I got a backup?
- Do I want to encrypt things? How about backups if I do?
(more to follow)