Post #1865028
2026-02-22 18:31 UTC
@argv_minus_one it allows me to not be perfectly meticulous about making backups and remembering edits. It also helps a LOT if I made a mistake in a gui app and can’t find the actual config file (this had happened to me when running the nvidia app and messing up my x11 setup somewhere)
And it’s much easier to distro hop if I know that a) the old distri is totally gone and b) I don’t need to worry about /home
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-02-22 20:04
@esther_alter Are you saying you often reinstall your distro and just keep /home? You should be able to do that with btrfs subvolumes, with a subvolume setup like this: /home - your home folder /distro1 - the root where you install one distro; contains etc, usr, and so on /distro2 - the root where you install another distro Then you install distro 1 into the /distro1 subvolume, mount that as its root file system, and mount the home subvolume on distro 1's /home. Does that make sense?