[nzlug] Migrating desktop

[Mark Foster]

>>
>> When it comes down to it, you can manually export all of your:
>>
>> - Email
>> - Bookmarks
>> - Documents
>>
> I imagine "passwords" may be a bit hard.

Should we mention the vulnerability of relying on saved passwords without 
a record somewhere else?

> How about offline web-pages?

Shouldn't you be going online to refresh these periodically anyway?

> There are also MS-Word templates and macros. But I figure anyone making
> such strong use of these things will be using wine.

Yes, as Macros dont strike me as the best thing to drag between MS Office 
and OpenOffice. (Can you even do that?)

>> Surely when moving between systems / OS's its a good time to 'refresh'
>> everything?
>
> People who are put off migrating by this prospect disagree with you.

In my limited experience, people citing the migration of 'settings' as a 
reason not to move, are falling into the 'can't be bothered' category... 
settings tend to be something you can restore in a few minutes and 
something which are application-specific anyway...

(or have I missed a point somewhere?)