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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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Yup. Check the diagram that I posted as a reply to another comment. It's a clean way and it allows you to access your files from all your distros.
At least in theory you could even use a /home partition if you really, really wanted, but then you'd need to make sure that your username is different for each distro. It's more work than it's worth, and muscle memory will make you to try to log into one system with the username of another system.