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Any good tools for switching? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are there any good tools for listing your current programs, maybe exporting settings etc. Listing hidden settings and save locations would be great too.

I'm about 90% ready to switch to Linux full time, and I want to make sure that I've got everything. I've got a horrible feeling that I'm missing something, but I can't think what it might be.

EDIT: Ironically, I forgot to mention my ADHD / memory issues. I could do with a tool like this because I forget about anything that I'm not currently using, or actively thinking about using soon >.<

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note down every tool you use in windows and use alternativeto.net to find linux alternatives for them. Thats what I did, saved me what you are going through. Everytime I tried to switch usinf a sifferent method I just ended up using Windows to not deal with the "pain point" of switching

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm about to update my post. Ironically, I forgot to mention my ADHD / memory issues.

I find that I focus on one 'task' for a while, like photo editing or programming, and forget about the other software I use. I might be on a streak with something today, and completely forget about what I was doing last week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here's what I would do as a fellow ADHD'er:

back up everything
create a windows VM of my current windows state and delete the dual boot (only boot into linux)
write out complete list of all windows apps you've used, as well as any CLI apps, extensions, packages (e.g. chocolatey).
1-by-1 (!!!) find an alternative, install it, copy all it's config (text or screenshots) across.

I would also delete or disable the app in Windows if I find the alternative to be sufficient... You don't want to be using both apps on both OS's at the same time. The Windows VM is just for apps that have no sufficient linux alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would also delete or disable the app in Windows if I find the alternative to be sufficient

That's a good idea. It would force me to switch back to Linux from the Windows installation.

Photoshop and scanning are probably the two things keeping me on Windows the most. GIMP just isn't as good, no matter how some people say it is, and while scanning is close, at the moment I just can't get the same quality under Linux.

On the bright side, I've only got a few hundred photos to scan, and that should be finished, so at least it's not a permanent problem :)