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[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 15 points 4 months ago (8 children)

A very dumb question probably, but I'm new to using Linux so I lack a lot of understanding: I'm on Bazzite atm. Would there be a simple way to switch to blend OS without wiping everything? Like a rebase? Probably not but I figured it's worth a shot to ask xD

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No such thing, we all start somewhere! :)

Anyway, you could in fact do that if you were thinking of trying out other Fedora Atomic images such as Silverblue and whatnot (see also the ublue page listing tons of others, including your bazzite!). This uses different tooling, so unfortunately not in this case.

[–] rs2009@infosec.pub 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, not just yet (in essence, it’d be hard to migrate over from the system used in Fedora Atomic to that used by blendOS) :( We’re working on a migration script for users from regular ole’ Arch Linux, though.

(disclaimer: blendOS dev here)

[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 4 points 4 months ago

Ah well, not the first time I changed distro xD I'll make some space on my drive and test it

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

bazzite is fedora based? If so, your filesystem is btrfs and your /home is a subvolume, same as your / (root). you can install a new operating system in a btrfs subvolume (e.g. /blendosroot), then have systemd-boot or grub mount it as root and mount your existing home from it.

sadly, there's no noob-friendly way to achieve this, but if you're adventurous, you have enough search terms to make it happen.

[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 4 points 4 months ago

I will jump into that rabbit hole, thanks!

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I'm new too but I separated by root and home partitions this last install to try and allow that.

[–] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

This use case would be covered by bootc, but BlendOS doesn’t have support by the looks of it atm

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Isn't that kind of the point of keeping / and /home on separate partitions or subvolumes/pools?