wildstar84
I’ve accumulated many tweaks & tuning fixes over the last decade+ (from Buster thru bookworm, but Debian broke everything in Testing->Trixie for me with their *t64 fiasco, abUsermerge & other changes) since I last did a (dreaded) fresh install. One thing that helped make this transition nearly seemless for me is that I keep a separate home partition, and any config or setup file or script I need to tweak, I always copied the original by appending “.org” onto the filename being copied and chmodded the copy to 400. Most are in /etc but a handful were in /usr/share, and all scripts I wrote were in /usr/local/bin, so they could be copied over. When I got the new system installed & working, I did sudo find / -name *.org” -print on my previous install (bought a new disk for the new one, so still have) & compared each to the current one (on that system). I then repeated for each corresponding still-relevent one on the new system & changed as needed (a few require some slight modifications for the modern system). I also created an installed package list on the old system via apt list –installed | sort >apt.list__installed.packagesyyddmm.txt so I could have a pretty good idea what needed installing (I started w/antiX-26 core and worked from there. All in all, it took a/b 3-4 days to have a shiny fully-customized Trixie on my machine (on a shiny new SSD drive)!