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Switching from Manjaro to EndeavorOS, is there a way to preserve my home directory? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The title says it all, I'd like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Copy them to an external drive or another computer, copy them back after.

Chances are you're gonna wanna wipe the partition table on your switch over so I'd just copy them out then back in. No point over complicating things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just to add: some folders' files might need modifications in the new system, e.g. .config/

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