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Can flatpaks be installed and accessed from another partition on the same drive? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My laptop seems very finicky with linux and enjoys periodically freezing. Some distributions are more stable than others and I'd like to keep testing other distributions without reinstalling/ downloading/transferring all my apps and steam games constantly.

What I would like to achieve is to have my small handful of flatpak apps and flatpak steam games on a separate partition to quickly access while I test and troubleshoot issues.

Is that possible to do with flatpaks?

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[–] qwesx@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have a separate home partition and just keep using it across distributions?

[–] alt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Additionally, ensure that flatpaks are installed within that home partition. Some distros (like Fedora) default to installing flatpaks system-wide (and thus flatpaks end up being installed in /var instead). So, after ensuring that your home folder is correctly found within the home partition, just install flatpaks with the flatpak install --user *package-name* command.

[–] alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not experienced enough with linux to understand if this is a question or a statement on what I can do. In either case, I don't know how to interpret what this means.

[–] cgarret3@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are confirming that, yes, it is an option to have a partition dedicated to just the user’s (your) home environment and folders

and

asking if that is an option that appeals to you or you have already considered.

It is what I prefer, but there are people who have good reason to not like that. It’s worth trying out imo, and later if you find that it doesn’t suit you, that’s okay, you’ll just need to find another solution

[–] alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, that makes sense.

What reasons would people not like doing that?

I personally feel like separation of user data and OS data is easier for me to manage.

[–] iso@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it annoying to worry about multiple partition sizes. Having to make sure your root and home partition are sized correctly is one more thing to think about.

[–] alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. I guess for my case it's fine since I have more storage than I can use. Additionally, I keep my most important data on multiple offline storages and even that is quite minimal.