I have in my old laptop a dual boot setup of windows11 and zorin os. But I am interested in switching Zorin to OpenSUSE tumvleweed. How can I safely do it without losing the data?

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    1 year ago

    Safely? Make a backup on an external drive. That’s at least safe-ish. Not trying to be flippant, this is just the only way I know that would qualify as “safe”.

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      1 year ago

      To add to this. You can use a tool like rsync for this. rsync -aAxv /home/username /destination/

      This will copy over youthome folder to rhe destination (network share,USB,External drive etc)

      Then reinstalland and do it in reverse.