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What are some preparations you think people should know about in advance of migrating to Linux? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a Brother laser printer on Kinoite. That's not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had to set up the driver via dkms. A little prep and knowledge in advance would have saved days of searching online.

I've started a personal to-do list of things to research and make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I make the full-time switch on my main desktop, so besides the usual "back up your files" advice, I'm hoping y'all can point out some QoL things I and others may often miss!

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[–] TrumpetX 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be ready to deal with a backup plan. Consumer services like Backblaze don't work with Linux.

I have opted into backing my data up to a local network NAS machine which in-turn backs all of its data up to a StorJ backed s3:// compatible endpoint which is very inexpensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, backups. That's on my list of things to check. It would be terribly inconvenient to have to manually pull up a web interface just to do backups.