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Can you change your Linux distro
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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A useful setup for the future is to keep home as a separate partition. Then you should be able to reinstall a different distro on the root partition and have all the data carried over. There is some bleed over in that all your dotfiles will carry over, but usually that doesn't break anything and is usually a plus (e.g. all your firefox addons and preferences will immediately be applied in the new install)
This.. This is a just good practice. That way you can go buck wild on your home partition. Additionally, you'll never accidentally have to deal with booting into your system with 0 free space on root. It's an easy fix but why have to deal with it