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What tips for initial setup? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I'm going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don't encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center.

Thanks!

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Separating your / and /home into different partitions could help for future distro hopping.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Just to expand on this - it's because if you reinstall your OS again, you can just delete the / partition, and keep the /home partition with all your user non-os data. It has config files, and most of the data you're working with on your PC, sans actuall applications.

    Once you install a new OS, if I understand it correctly (never actually done that) you can just use the same partition as /home without having to copy anything anywhere, you just select it during install, and it will use it with all the data.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I’ve heard this suggested before. Do you happen to know how to do that during the install process?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Should be an option during the reinstall, around the time it asks about file systems and whatnot, but I haven't touched Ubuntu in about 15 years, so I have no idea what their install software is like. It's a fairly standard thing though, so I'd honestly be amazed if it wasn't included.

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