I’m working on a suite of scripts that will enable me to hop Linux distros and get back to business as usual w/ minimal fuss. When I hop distros, I tend to back up my important stuff and blow everything else away so I can start with a clean slate. I have some scripts for updating my backups before the wipe and updating the system after the base install:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Followed by other commands to install my favorite apps and configure my favorite desktop settings.
One thing that I haven’t nailed down yet is restoring my Firefox add-ons through the command line. Searching the web, I’m not even sure this is feasible. I found this post from 2011 in the AskUbuntu forum, but I figure the answer might have changed since then.
I just want to remove as much friction as possible from the distro hopping process. I know I can store /home on a separate partition, but I prefer nice, clean installs followed by scripting in my config changes.
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.
I know that some distros package Firefox extensions. Debian is one, here’s one example: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/webext-ublock-origin-firefox. So you could
sudo apt install webext-ublock-origin-firefoxToday I Learned. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for the tip!
The chance of that working well across distros is pretty low, though, unfortunately…