The title says it all, I’d like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.

  • 🌘 Umbra Temporis 🌒@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If you’re frequently distro-hopping, I recommend using a seperate /home partition. I did that before I settled down, I can’t begin to describe how convenient it was (especially if you use Flatpak).

    • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      To do this one could install the new distro on a new partition, boot to it, delete everything from the old installation except the hone directory, move your user to the base directory (/home/sorrybookbroke -> /sorrybookbroke) before editing your /etc/fstab and mounting the old partition to /home

      This way, no external drive is needed like @Luci@lemmy.ca suggested. Of course, their suggestion is the easiest, but this is the one I personally chose.