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Need help in switching distros
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Safely? Make a backup on an external drive. That's at least safe-ish. Not trying to be flippant, this is just the only way I know that would qualify as "safe".
To add to this. You can use a tool like rsync for this. rsync -aAxv /home/username /destination/
This will copy over youthome folder to rhe destination (network share,USB,External drive etc)
Then reinstalland and do it in reverse.