Need help in switching distros
I have in my old laptop a dual boot setup of windows11 and zorin os. But I am interested in switching Zorin to OpenSUSE tumvleweed. How can I safely do it without losing the data?
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I have in my old laptop a dual boot setup of windows11 and zorin os. But I am interested in switching Zorin to OpenSUSE tumvleweed. How can I safely do it without losing the data?
You could install OpenSUSE in the partition that had zorin, overwriting the previous system.
And what about the data? What is the best way to manage them?
Restore the data from backup. You've got a backup of your important data, right? Right?
Yes, I have an extra copy of the data in an external hard drive.
In that case simply wipe/re-install and restore your backup. Ideally test that procedure in a VM or something before you wipe.
And while doing that it's best practice to create a partition only for /home. Easy to distrohop.
Make /home a separate partition.