Is there a fairly clean way to migrate from Mint (Petra, Cinnamon, 64bit) to Ubuntu (14.04 LTS, Gnome, 64bit) without losing most of my setup and application installs?
FWIW, /var and /home are on separate volumes from /boot and /
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Sign up to join this communityI wish there was an easy tool for migrating between distributions, but I don't think anything like that exists.
try AptOnCD
install aptoncd in Mint :- sudo apt-get install aptoncd
After taking backup (.ISO) from Mint then install aptoncd on your ubuntu and Restore .ISO file !!