Migration from Mageia

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Hello,

I’m using Mageia 5/KDE 4.14, I really love it, but there are 2 things that bother me a lot:

  1. I can’t have the latest Firefox from repositories. This is my home computer, I share it with my son and having the latest version in this case is really an advantage and the manual install doesn’t have auto update. On Mageia I’m using 38.6 ESR.
  2. I have to frequently clean some files that fills my /home partition: lots of *.kcache. Yes, i could run an automated script on every boot to delete those files, but it’s not a solution, just a workaround.

As a happy old Suse and Opensuse user (I’ve used it until version 11 or 12), I decided to try the distro again and I have some questions:

My searches shows me that I have to use Tumbleweed. For internet (using the latest FF), Plex Media Server and Steam, this is the best choice, correct?

Does anyone heard about the problem with .kcache files on opensuse?

My main goal is to maintain my /home partition, but it looks that KDE doesn’t exist anymore, having only Plasma 5. Does exist some kind of migration? Some script, or during install it recognizes KDE files and migrate them or they are completely incompatible?

In this case, just delete ~/.KDE before install is enough to maintain my non-KDE stuffs ok? Or there are significant differences on /home structure?

Thanks a lot!

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I recently upgraded from Mandriva to OpenSuse 13.1 and what I did might be of some use (or not!). Once the o/s was installed, I logged on as root and created my user. I restored the user home dir and fixed the uid and gid, which for some reason had changed. I also moved all the “dot” dirs in the home directory to a new directory imaginatively named DOTS. This gave me all the configs. I then logged on as my user.

Part of the upgrade saw a change from IceWM to XFCE. As I had all of the IceWM config files in the DOTS dir, I was able to inspect those and setup my menu with the same layout. I use some KDE apps even though I don’t use KDE. (I like the apps but I haven’t liked the desktop since 3.5) I fired an app off so it would create the necessary files. I then exited it and copied the configs for it from my DOTS dir to the appropriate place. Repeat for each app. It was tedious but my workspace and menus ended up the same albeit with a different desktop environment. I have a naked desktop and don’t use widgets, which made things much easier for me.