Does switching Linux distributions trash your home directory?
- by Stuart Woodward
I have an Ubuntu installation on my netbook and after trying it out on a bootable USB I have decided to switch to Mint Linux. If I run the Mint installer from the USB will it totally trash my home directory? Or will it be equivalent to an upgrade where the systems files that need to be replaced will change leaving the users folders as is.
(Yes, I plan to backup the important files in the /home folders before hand...)