M2: Time Machine transfer for fresh setup?

[dmk1974]

What method are you all doing for your new M2 MBA's? Time Machine backup/restore has always been super easy. Or is it time for a fresh install with this new model?

 

[Chateaunole-du-Pape]

I have a Time Machine backup, but I'm going to do a clean install. My Mac dates to mid-2009, and is still running El Capitan. I might be wrong, but it feels like too much unwanted junk might come over from such an old system if I were to use Time Machine. All I really need to bring over is photos and music, which are all in the cloud anyways, plus a few hundred files, which I can take care of either via the cloud or an ethernet-to-usb-c cable.

 

[brerlappin]

Fresh app installs, then time machine restore the rest

 

[Apple_Robert]

I did Migration from my M1 since I had recently done a clean install on the M1 and didn't have it full of a bunch of "stuff." Very seamless process. Faster than TM.