Neville and yazm894: I’m probably showing my ignorance, but I think of my browser and email life as conducted on the respective cloud servers. All of my Thunderbird email is stored on the Thunderbird server and my Firefox settings/bookmarks live on the Firefox cloud server, just as my id/passwords are stored on the Bitwarden server. When I load a new distro for an extended trial, I install Bitwarden in Firefox to access that information, then sign in to Firefox Sync and watch all of my Firefox data populate the program. Opening Thunderbird accesses my saved/archived and current mail from the Thunderbird server. Then I import my calendar and contacts files from their storage location on my external hard drive. In 15 minutes, my new distro has all I need to do anything I usually do, less the new applications I hoped to find in the new distro.
Seems pretty simple to me.