I’ve spent the most part of today (writing this at 11:40pm) installing and setting up Fedora on my laptop, moving over from Ubuntu. It’s always a pain setting up a new OS, and even more frustrating copying files to the new OS. I had over 35GB to copy and these were just work files. No movies, music, or games.
Setting up BOINC was a headache too. Finally got it working, but it keeps coming up with an error at loading. But it works, and that’s the important thing. On the plus side, I’ve Bitbucketted the setup script I’ve used so if I have to rebuild, it won’t take me as long next time.
Blender Fox 
I got sick of copying over large amounts of data too so I set up a separate partition with all the data. It isn’t touched when I install a new system so it’s ready to go when the installation is finished.
If you need help with Fedora the forum is quite good, better than many.
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I don’t have a separate partition – I use rsnapshot to sync with an external USB and use that to copy back when needed
As for the forums, I’m already on there, just haven’t used it for, oh, 2 years.
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