Upgrading from FC4 to Kubuntu???

[Luke-Jr]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:01, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 13:27, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
> >  This is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory.  You can always
> > slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other partitions
> > and reinstall and all your crap is still there.  Some of your dot files
> > may need to be deleted, but should still work with newer program
> > versions.
>
> This is becoming more of a problem as the GUI takes over a lot of system
> configuration and management.  Your mail and address book, IRC information,
> IM configuration, and other important things are being stored somewhere in
> a hidden filesystem that can get as ugly to find things in as the Microsoft
> Registry.  You don't just want to delete it, but you can't trust packages
> built by a different distro to handle the existing configs correctly, or to
> even put them in the same place.

Well, KDE at least keeps all its configuration and data in ~/.kde
Unless you're downgrading KDE, there shouldn't be migration problems there.