Installation to end distrohopping

[dirn]

@How to run a stress-free EndeavourOS

• Don’t re-use /home - People will often tell you to have a separate partition for /home. IMO, this is terrible advice. You should never share /home between distros. Even with the same distro, it typically doesn’t make sense to re-use it. If there is some problem that causes you to reinstall, the issue is just as likely to be in /home as outside of it. If you want to preserve or share your personal data, instead, create a partition or subvolume that contains your user data and then mount or symlink the data to ~/Documents, ~/Videos, ~/Picture, etc.
• Have some amount of swap - If you completely run out of memory, your system hard crashes. This is bad. Having some swap will decrease the chance of this happening. It doesn’t matter if it is zram, a swapfile or a swap partition. Just have some swap.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, @dalto. I’m glad to see that I already follow about 90% of the same practices, except for the two points you highlighted.

I’ve been reusing the /home partition across different distros, but I make sure to delete all hidden files and folders beforehand, keeping only my personal data directories.

As for the swap partition, I stopped using one a few years ago on machines with 32GB of RAM. I don’t use sleep or hibernate, as I prefer to fully shut down the system when it’s not in use. That said, if having swap is still considered beneficial, I might revisit the idea — possibly using zram or a swap file instead.