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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Me neither. The more I dwell on it, the grumpier I'm getting. Distro hopping is a young man's sport. I've got work to do.

Thankfully, I learned the hard way a long time ago that my files are almost entirely on a secondary drive and my home folders are all simply symlinks to folders there, so I won't lose any data since that drive won't be wiped. But it's just such a pain in the butt to set up everything the way I like it.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Gnome has a Save Desktop app which backs up your desktop config, list of Flatpak apps, and the folders you choose. I use Bazzite but I'm not locked in.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I like to have a separate partition for /home Whatever happens I can wipe root safely and install something else.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Psst, you can keep your /home. Copy /home/username to a new partition before the install (just the username folder in the root of the new partition), do the install, and point it at your new partition as /home. Bam, it's your new home.

    Or you could copy out/copy back.

    You'll need to reinstall your apps, but you won't need to redo all your settings for them.

    -- Frost

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Ya I used to do this but didn't for this install. I think I'm just going to make a new partition or slap in another disk for the OS and my out the manjaro disk as my home and blow away the rest of the OS.

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