I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I’ve been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

  • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1122 days ago

    If you don’t mess with the partitions during the install and don’t format, and make the same username, you should be back to normal after a reinstall. Take a backup offline, of course.

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      22 days ago

      make sure not to reformat though. it can be a problem depending on the installer his distro uses.

      i think its safer to just save the home folder, and replace it later when the system is installed.