Question: I’m running Linux Mint right now. Is it possible to change distro to … for example OpenSuse - without a clean install ?

  • @[email protected]
    6•14 days ago

    Personally I don’t use a separate /home partition. Software versions can differ significantly between distros and this has plenty of potential to effectively fuck up your system anyhow*.

    I use a separate data partition instead, and hook it into my home with symlinks. Pictures, Documents, Videos etc. - these are usually those that take the most disk space anyhow, by a large margin.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•14 days ago

      I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.