Oh, can't really try that since it requires root, but that's really cool!
Besides the files that are easy enough to move over, for app data there really is no other choice than to either haves ones that support their own export/import functionality or if you're not lucky enough to have eliminated the apps that don't have it and need their data you can only go back to papa Google and ask to politely get all your stuff for restoration on the new phone.
Takeaways:
- If you care more about salvaging data than privacy, use a Google account on your phones, otherwise, if you still value privacy but not so much security, root a phone as soon as you get it (not always possible or desirable) so you can use other backup solutions that require root access.
- Prefer installing apps that have an embedded backup functionality so you can be sure it's always possible to get the data out regardless of what you did about point 1
- (Bonus) Ask for said backup functionality to be added to apps you'd like to use with a feature request on the app's repo when it's open source, I've been doing that for the past year or so and I saw that quite a few have gone and implemented it, love these dudes :)
- (super extra bonus) Fuck Google for artificially preventing a full backup solution that doesn't rely on their cloud being involved
KDE Connect can get you most of the way there, unfortunately you won't be able to auto sync the clipboard from the phone to the PC due to an Android limitation (the other way around works instead), but you can still manually send it over. For example, to make it easier to access, I added the tile for sending it in the quick settings
One day maybe I'll understand why people are fine with package managers that have you sweat if you're updating whenever the heck you want rather than often and with a second pair of eyes on the news
The Nazis will overtake us, one red hat at a time
I'll check your /c/ock once it's up then
Bu-but we're programmers
Ah interesting, is the process more automated with it?
So I'm assuming your drives are not encrypted, right?
I've never done that so I didn't know you could, anyways I think I'll stay away from these pooling solutions for now since I risk corrupting my data too much
I don't feel like that's much of an issue, new people are usually introduced to the easier and more robust options. There's nothing wrong in how other distros operate, just that the community shouldn't feel compelled to suggest them to people they can presume aren't the target audience