I’m on Linux for a couple of years and I love it. Distrohoping never interested me though, I’m content with my flavour. But I need to reinstall my OS soon and it gives me headaches. So many settings I changed, applications I installed, configured and forgot about.
Now I read about all you guys constantly distrohopping for fun, how do you even do this? Do you start from scratch, explore everything and leave after months of putting in all the work of making an OS your own!? Or do you just casually check it out a couple of days? What do you do with all your music, pictures, addons, portable software?
Sorry for the confusion there, trying to be too concise in a short reply.
I get the points you’re making; I’ve been there, done the root space recovery thing (the default can be a massive amount of space with modern drives, so I’ve changed it on several systems). I’ve setup lvm across drives, used btrfs (& sunvolumes), etc, so I know where you’re coming from. Never seen quotas actually used out in the wild of (generally) single user domestic settings.
But, moving
/hometo a separate partition, drive(s), etc. provides flexibility - in this case, the OP’s point of distrohopping.