@Sergio I've looked around for this periodically over the years, and while it would be a significant win for linux accessibility to my knowledge it doesn't exist. I've never seen an installer that so much as volunteered to help with a backup, much less offered migration/restore afterwards. All the linux installers I've ever touched believe that backups are the user's pre-work responsibility and that they're going to have permission to pave the entire drive flat.
@mhoye @Sergio I wouldn't think the makers of a distro would want the responsibility of ensuring people's files are transferred safely. To much to go wrong. Nothing gained.
It would need sufficient space on the USB installer to hold all the stuff or make a partition to hold it? And it would have to ask what folders you wanted copied.
All the user has to do is drag Documents, Photos, Videos, etc to an external drive. If a person can't do that, they don't have any business installing an OS.
I have never seen or even heard of anyone who dual-booted linux and windows who did not start regretting it in days and eventually abandon the idea within weeks, and I've been doing weird shit with unix boxes for a really long time.
The only time I've ever seen dual-booting Windows and a Unix work right anywhere was when you could run Boot Camp or Parallels on Intel Macs.
@mhoye @mboelen @rspfau @steter
The amount of e-waste that could be avoided by this alone is more than worth while. IMO
Nothing is perfect, but being able to just move over your files, would be huge. Like the Desktop, Documents, and maybe some more things.
There seems to have been a #Ubuntu option called "Migrate Documents and Settings". This moved files over? Buuut I can't seem to find any information. Likely abandoned. It would be a great time for @ubuntu to pick this up again.
