How does Time Machine handle this? I did a MacBook Pro upgrade and told the machines to update themselves. They did it across significant OS versions and gave me a list of applications that failed.
Of course, if you were a complete slob on your old machine, that’s the environment that will follow you over …
Are you a transplant from Windows? There are several Mac tricks. It usually pays significantly to back up (copy) the whole /Users folder. That’s the parent directory to /Desktop, /Documents, /Movies, /Music, /Download, etc.
I don’t know of a handy list of Eq settings. Did you Google? You must have found that list the first time.