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Your Experiences With Artix Migration

Hello

Just wonder if many community members have followed the Wiki Artix Migration Guide.
I followed the wiki to convert an Arch system to Artix but the PC lost internet in the procedure.

In my opinion I'd suggest that "
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Artix migration only be done from chrooted USB live image
".
I think that should be placed in Artix Wiki . . .

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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I've attempted it three times and been successful twice.
First time to openrc. Totally sucessful. So few problems I was amazed. (Check my first ever post on here).
A couple of years later (I'd been on Gentoo and then back to Arch) I tried again this time to runit. Failed (user error I'm sure).
I can't even remember for sure what my problem was but I gave up and migrated to openrc instead.
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Artix migration only be done from chrooted USB live image
I think that should be placed in Artix Wiki . . .
Clone your partition. Exact copy except where needed to differ eg. fstab and bootloader.
Make sure you can dual boot into both (almost) identical installs.
Then if you mess one up you can revert to the original very easily, clone again and try again.
And you can chroot into the Artix partition from the original Arch partition. I prefer that to using a LIve USB.

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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Artix Linux is fantastic.
I now have my entire household - - every computer has been converted to Artix.
The system performance is like night and day compared to systemd in my opinion. Plus in general systems seem more stable.
I only have 1 computer dual booting the dredded Windows.
I can't consider Microsoft Windows backup - - LOL

Connections to mirrolist failed in the openrc migration process. Not knocking that since chroot was the cure to complete the migration process.

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Quote from: Rocky-IV – on
Artix Linux is fantastic.
I now have my entire household - - every computer has been converted to Artix.
The system performance is like night and day compared to systemd in my opinion. Plus in general systems seem more stable.
I only have 1 computer dual booting the dredded Windows.
I can't consider Microsoft Windows backup - - LOL

Connections to mirrolist failed in the openrc migration process. Not knocking that since chroot was the cure to complete the migration process.

I would be interested if you could elaborate on how you solved that problem please, as I have twice had the migration fail at that point and was unable to complete it.

Thanks!

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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I've almost finished my migration from Gentoo. Most of the things went smoothly and i've learned a bit how to make my own PKGBUILDs (or yoink them from the AUR).

One hiccup that i've encountered is that the newest version of the kitty has something screwed with the function, that displays images in the terminal and to keep plenty of my quality-of-life fzf scripts working i had to revert to the older version and set pacman to ignore updates of this particular package (at least for now).

After being mostly optimistic i'm now getting slightly worried, that keeping the distro on the bleeding edge might bite me in the butt. 

Do you have any good tips?

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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Maybe one of these versions could help out?
No worries - i've made my PKGBUILD with downgraded version of kitty, since the submitted "solution" from the kitty bugtracker does not even seem to work for me. I need to create some version control system set up for my scripts before i start gutting the solutions that were working on my previous setup.

I've added one more PKGBUILD - mpv from git, because ytdl_hook.lua has some issues in the version that is in the repo right now.

Other than that i have PKGBUILDs for dmenu and flameshot with my custom patches that got carried over from my Gentoo setup - i love that in Gentoo i could just apply patches on the fly to already existing ebuilds, but i guess here i can write patches to official PKGBUILDs that would add my patches and that would roughly serve the same purpose.

Few PKGBUILDs i just snagged straight out of AUR - nginx-mod-rtmp, inotify-tools, nim, nitter and a japanese font

With my own repo steadily growing like that i'm just slightly spooked if this is the intended way of using the distribution or if i'm just setting myself up to a disaster

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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Quote from: edwardDmorrison – on
With my own repo steadily growing like that i'm just slightly spooked if this is the intended way of using the distribution or if i'm just setting myself up to a disaster
I'm really not a specialist, but I use some applications compiled from AUR.
I update them thanks to yay, a bit out of laziness and mostly lack of skill.

But it's been five years since I last shot my Artix Linux.

The specialists on this forum will be able to give you relevant advice.
I feel that the Artix team will soon have a new packager.

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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Quote from: edwardDmorrison – on
- i love that in Gentoo i could just apply patches on the fly to already existing ebuilds, but i guess here i can write patches to official PKGBUILDs that would add my patches and that would roughly serve the same purpose.
Yep that's the thing I miss most about Gentoo.
 

Re: Your Experiences With Artix Migration

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I had to follow the migration guide cause at the time I installed my Artix, the official ISO wouldn't boot. So I just went with an ArchLinux ISO and immediately performed a migration towards Artix.

It went without a single issue, I was previously using Gentoo Linux but I wanted an environment that was still somewhat bleeding-edge without the "chore" of waiting for packages to compile.

I definitely miss some features that Gentoo offers, like USE flags for customization and packages slots are among those.

Being someone in a digital divide area, I would love some big packages (like libreoffice-still/fresh) to be split into more packages (thus having lo-writer, lo-calc, etc...) to save on bandwidth and time.

I tried other distros because of my job, but I found that many issues I had were due to Systemd (usually "hiding the real status of a unit") so the lack it is definitely a bonus to me.

Artix has been my daily drive both on- and off-work for about 4 years now, and besides the small hiccup here and there (due to some packages being upgraded before others) I thoroughly enjoy my experience.