Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier

“Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to be showing it a bit more love. When you first installed Linux, you might’ve overlooked the option to use a custom disk setup—and nobody would blame you for doing so. But take your time to understand the benefits, and a highly portable, easily upgradable system is yours for the taking.” Although I’ve stopped distro hopping, I did still move earlier this year from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. It was completely painless seeing I’ve long had my home folder on a separate hard drive (although a separate partition is also fine). The key reasons are: No worry about overwriting your important documents, settings etc when installing a new Linux distro as /home is physically separated. Can test new distro with a separate / root with your data. I have a higher speed NVMe boot drive whilst my /home folder…