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Mention, in the same breath, Arch Linux and rolling release and most Linux distro seekers will head for the hills.
Over the last 3 years EndeavourOS ( EOS for short) has sat alongside the more illustrious Linux Mint and MX Linux in the top 3 of the Distrowatch charts.
There has to be a reason for this heightened interest in a relatively new distro which only started life in July 2019, admittedly as a reincarnation of the earlier discontinued Antergos.
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(I am obliged to split this blog into 2 parts because of the restriction of a maximum of 5 attachments per LQ blog).
Link to PART 2 of this blog:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=39213
In my opinion, having a separate Home partition makes life much simpler in the future when installing a newer version of Linux Mint or another distro.
It is then only necessary to change the root (system) partition whilst still using the existing...
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Posted 05-17-2019 at 05:36 PM by hydrurga
Updated 05-23-2019 at 07:49 AM by hydrurga
This tutorial currently relates to VirtualBox 6.0.x, but will be valid for any version in the VirtualBox repository. The following instructions have been tested on Mint 19.x but should also work on Mint 18.x, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, and other distros based on Ubuntu. Note that since v6, VirtualBox does not support 32-bit hosts, for which you should install VirtualBox v5.2.
The instructions below should not affect any virtual machines you have already set up with a previous version of...
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Preserving your existing Home partition when installing a new distro
IMPORTANT
Regardless of the following suggestion on how to preserve your current Home (/home) partition, it is ESSENTIAL to also make a BACKUP of all existing personal data, just in case anything goes wrong!
The backup, to an external hard drive or similar, should include the following:
bookmarks.html (Firefox in my case)
Email profile folder (Thunderbird in my...
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