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submitted 1 year ago by alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

My laptop seems very finicky with linux and enjoys periodically freezing. Some distributions are more stable than others and I'd like to keep testing other distributions without reinstalling/ downloading/transferring all my apps and steam games constantly.

What I would like to achieve is to have my small handful of flatpak apps and flatpak steam games on a separate partition to quickly access while I test and troubleshoot issues.

Is that possible to do with flatpaks?

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[-] alt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Additionally, ensure that flatpaks are installed within that home partition. Some distros (like Fedora) default to installing flatpaks system-wide (and thus flatpaks end up being installed in /var instead). So, after ensuring that your home folder is correctly found within the home partition, just install flatpaks with the flatpak install --user *package-name* command.

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