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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Just moved to Linux: a follow up (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Corr@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it's been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol.
Fortunately I kept my /home on its own partition, so this shouldn't be too bad to get back up and running as desired.

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Keeping /home separate is a good call. I can also recommend backups to a different system. Also test those backups.

Playing with things can be fun if that is what you enjoy. Being careful is good but the best way to avoid serious issues is being able to recover from the worst case.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Why do you advocate for keeping /home separate?

I personally don't do it because the more partitions you have, the more often you need to fiddle around in GParted when one partition gets full. This is also why I use swap files instead of swap partitions

As far as I can tell, unless you distro-hop, separating /home doesn't have any advantages. Even then, sharing one /home directory between multiple desktop environments can cause some problems

I agree with making and testing backups, though. My current strategy is to back everything up to a 4.2 TiB ZFS pool with daily snapshots on my LAN, and back up the most important data on that to the cloud

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