didier gaumet <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 07/03/2026 à 10:35, Chris Green a écrit : > > Nearly all my computers run Debian 13 but my wife's Thinkpad is still > > running xubuntu 24.04. > > > > I think the xubuntu installation on her laptop could do with a > > thorough clean out, it hasn't had a clean installation from scratch > > for many years. Currently the Firefox and Thunderbird snap > > installations seem to be causing problems. > > > > So I'm thinking that, if I'm going to do a clean install, I may as > > well install Debian 13. > > > > Her laptop is used nearly wholly for E-Mail and web browsing, nothing > > very techie at all. > > > > Am I likely to hit any big snags? Obviously I will back things up > > carefully (we have daily incremental backups of /home and /etc > > anyway). Do I need to do much more than make an image of /home and > > then install Debian 13 and then copy /home onto the new install? > > > > Hello Chris, > > First of all, in case there is a doubt here, I think there is only one > safe way to go from Ubuntu to Debian: a clean install. Any kind of > upgrade from Ubuntu from Debian should bring problems. > Yes, that's why I considered moving to Debian as I had decided a clean install was going to be a 'good idea' anyway. :-)
> Apparently Ubuntu 24.4 linux kernel is version 6.8 while Debian 13 > Trixie is 6.12 so if your wife's laptop works with Ubuntu 24.4 it should > work with Trixie. > > There would be probably no big problem switching from Ubuntu to Debian. > But potentially you would have to assert how to handle personal > application data: Ubuntu apps are often provided as snap packages and I > think(1) that you could have to somehow restore the data to the relevant > Debian packaged apps. Or you could chose to keep on using snaps on > Debian, that is possible but it is not the default. > I want to get away from snap, that's one reason why I migrated all my systems to Debian a while ago. Thanks. -- Chris Green ·
