“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 sits on a bigger slower hard drive.
It is really well worth setting up.