The title says it all, I’d like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.
If you’re frequently distro-hopping, I recommend using a seperate
/homepartition. I did that before I settled down, I can’t begin to describe how convenient it was (especially if you use Flatpak).Copy them to an external drive or another computer, copy them back after.
Chances are you’re gonna wanna wipe the partition table on your switch over so I’d just copy them out then back in. No point over complicating things.
Yea, I was gonna say, have ya not heard of backups ? but this is better.
Just to add: some folders’ files might need modifications in the new system, e.g. .config/
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I have actually done this more than once. It works but you can end up with a few rough edges if you remove the Manjaro specific stuff. Nothing serious.
If you want to make the switch completely, there are quite a few steps: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/howto-convert-manjaro-to-endeavouros/5954/97
One thing I am curious about is what happens if you just add the EOS repos to Manjaro.
My biggest gripe with Manjaro is the way they hold packages back and the issues that causes with the AUR. If you had both, I imagine you would mostly just get the EOS packages for anything that was not Manjaro specific. If you also migrate the kernel to an EOS ( actually Arch ) package, most of the Manjaro damage would be contained.
Adding the eos-hooks package would make it report as EOS as well.
I might just give it a shot just to see what happens.
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WHY THERE ARE NOT.
Please have a partition for /home. In fact, you need partition for /usr, /var,… too
Why? Serious question. I kind of understand /home, but why the others? I used to do it a bit, but now I don’t bother. I never knew how big to make each partition, and have had problems where something like /boot fills up and freezes the system.
Just remove every directory except for /home/. Then install the new OS without repartitioning.
I’d be careful, not every distro plays nice when you do this. In my experience at least.
