Kubuntu & Server Switch

Last weekend, after check out and making sure the two computers that I got from my new Reddit buddy worked, I started doing a little more digging into Linux Desktop distributions and decided to check out Kubuntu after sitting with KDE Neon for a while; I was doing some research on Neon and found out that it’s not really a “user” distribution but more of a programmer’s distribution. So off to Kubuntu I go.

Kubuntu is nice. A little similar to Ubuntu, but a little bit better. I don’t have much to say about it, as I’ve said before, Linux Desktop is like any other operating system for someone who doesn’t use it for anything other than checking emails, Googling things here and there, using the terminal for SSH, and typing blog posts. I have no reason to switch from Kubuntu unless someone out there has something amazing to tell me about another distribution.

But, on a “I’ve been stressing myself out for a week” note…

I finally got my web server, my Nextcloud and WordPress server, moved over from the HP Compaq DC5750 to the Dell OptiPlex 7050 that I received last week. And it was stressful! Between Gparted, Clonezilla, Boot Repair, and breaking the old server and having access to nothing, I thought I’d lost everything and would have to start over from scratch. All of my data was intact in both places, but it took a lot of researching and asking questions (sometimes Reddit is helpful, not so much this time) but I managed to get everything migrated up and running.

I did kind of give up before I figured it out, so I did end up creating a new Nextcloud instance on the new server instead of migrating the old one, but I did migrate my storage data from the storage drives in the old system. While trying to figure out how to migrate my WordPress website over without having to rebuild the whole thing, I figure out both how to do that and how I could have brought over Nextcloud. But by that point Nextcloud was already up and running and I was just happy to have it. I know what to do next time now. Hopefully, I can remember all of that and put together a how-to in the Codes & Scripts section of the site, both for myself and for other who may want to do that in the future.

Now that I have that done. The next step is to decide what I’m doing with the 7040 I bought and the 7080 I received.