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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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[-] alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That first bit makes sense, I should be able to figure that out I think.

The reason I want to avoid using an external drive is because it takes a minimum an hour to transfer 4 games worth of data currently. That time is an inhibiting factor for me. I'd like to minimize downtime.

Also I'd like to test gaming oriented distributions with newer kernels compared to what Linux Mint ships with.

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