• Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    How does one simplify distro hopping? Do you have a workflow to make it easier to set everything up?

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
      7·
      4 months ago

      Look up how to have /home on a seperate partition, it lets you keep your user files when distro-hopping

      • Nicht BurningTurtle
        21·
        4 months ago

        Is there a way to avoid creating a new one, or do you just replace the new one in /etc/fstab?

        • Successful_Try543
          11·
          4 months ago

          Do you mean: You currently have a separate partition mounted as /home and want to reuse this when installing a new distro?
          Yes, there is a way to avoid creating a new one:

          1. In the gui or tui installer, choose manual partitioning
          2. If they don’t exist yet, create the partitions you want to use.
          3. Specify their file system (ext4 or whatever you prefer), mount point or use, e.g. /, /home, swap.

          !!! Be careful !!!

          !!! For the /home partition make sure to uncheck recreate file system, format or alike. !!!
          This is the partition currently filled with your data!

          1. apply changes and procede installation.