On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, at 12:54 AM, Slade Watkins via users wrote:
On 10/28/22 4:27 PM, Jake D wrote:
> I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile and the ONLY
option is to start over
Wanted to hop in here real fast and say:
Pop!_OS, which is my primary distro (with Fedora being my secondary),
has the option to go into recovery (has a small partition just for
up-to-date recovery media) and reinstall your OS without losing any
personal files.
AFAIK, it's one of the only distributions that has something like it.
Fedora doesn't have a recovery partition. But there is a (sort of hidden, or at least
non-obvious) way of doing a custom installation while preserving home. There isn't
detailed documentation for it. It's just a test case.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_partitioning_custom_btrfs_pres...
This is more official than the draft dual boot one I posted previously, in that I try to
keep this one up to date. But it's just a test case, intended for a test setup to make
sure installer functionality isn't lost. It's not really intended as installation
advise. It could be adapted into a Quick Doc for that purpose though.
But my understanding of the original poster's issue is that he now has a bunch of
system level customizations. Not so much user level customizations. Therefore the reuse
home directory method wouldn't help much.
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Chris Murphy