The more I use Linux, the more I fall in love with it.

Recently I decided to remove Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn completely, format the hard drive and install Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. Before I did, I made sure I made a backup of my home folder and my data folder. After installation I just copied the old folders back to their places. It just was so great to see that all the settings I had for my programs were kept. All my preferences for Firefox, for Evolution, you name it.

After not using Akregator for over 6 months, I installed it again today. When I started the program, all of the feeds of blogs I was following were still there. I had forgotten about most of them.

I mention this, because I remember the times when I had to reinstall Windows and had to backup so many different things, that I usually forgot to put some of them back on their place. Some were just virtually impossible to backup. But in this case, it just took backing up the home directory.

See, Linux usually keeps the settings and user preferences of all the installed program in the home directory of that user. So if you copy this home directory to a different machine, you will still use the same settings and preferences as the other machine.

I keep exploring the world of Linux and believe, I will write about every little detail that makes me happy I switched from the Windows environment to Linux.