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Switching distros was not on my agenda. ๐
You had plenty of time tbh. As a former Manjaro user myself.
Me neither. The more I dwell on it, the grumpier I'm getting. Distro hopping is a young man's sport. I've got work to do.
Thankfully, I learned the hard way a long time ago that my files are almost entirely on a secondary drive and my home folders are all simply symlinks to folders there, so I won't lose any data since that drive won't be wiped. But it's just such a pain in the butt to set up everything the way I like it.
Psst, you can keep your /home. Copy /home/username to a new partition before the install (just the username folder in the root of the new partition), do the install, and point it at your new partition as /home. Bam, it's your new home.
Or you could copy out/copy back.
You'll need to reinstall your apps, but you won't need to redo all your settings for them.
-- Frost
Gnome has a Save Desktop app which backs up your desktop config, list of Flatpak apps, and the folders you choose. I use Bazzite but I'm not locked in.
That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.
It would not https://vikdevelop.github.io/SaveDesktop/
I like to have a separate partition for /home Whatever happens I can wipe root safely and install something else.
I used to bother doing all of that too. I just found symlinking achieved the same results without a bunch of manually configuring of mount points.