Question: I’m running Linux Mint right now. Is it possible to change distro to … for example OpenSuse - without a clean install ?
Question: I’m running Linux Mint right now. Is it possible to change distro to … for example OpenSuse - without a clean install ?
THANK YOU ALL for your replies. I’ll do a clean install and made a backup of my files (was not difficult bc most stuff I have in the cloud). I’m moving indeed from Mint to OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I don’t know exactely why, but it seems to me an interesting thing to do. Still figuring out what distro fits me best.
A useful setup for the future is to keep home as a separate partition. Then you should be able to reinstall a different distro on the root partition and have all the data carried over. There is some bleed over in that all your dotfiles will carry over, but usually that doesn’t break anything and is usually a plus (e.g. all your firefox addons and preferences will immediately be applied in the new install)
This… This is a just good practice. That way you can go buck wild on your home partition. Additionally, you’ll never accidentally have to deal with booting into your system with 0 free space on root. It’s an easy fix but why have to deal with it
Excellent choice. I did the same last year. I’m still on Tumbleweed.
Welcome to distro hopping! If at some point in the future you want to try another out but don’t want to start from scratch, there are ways to demo them to get a feel and see if it’s something you’d like to take the effort to wipe and install.