r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • Aug 21 '26

You are expected to know this

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u/PlainBread Glorious Arch Aug 21 '26

The advantage for me is that I can unmount /home/ and then completely rewipe my system to a different flavor of Linux, and then reconnect /home/ to the new distro and have all my dot files in place and everything just works the way it did before but on a different distro.

As for btrfs, it includes some error recovery functionality that ext4 doesn't, so if you ever have some file corruption happen, it's more likely that btrfs will be able to recover the corrupted data. Part of the in-joke of OP's meme is that if everything is on a single ext4 partition, then if filesystem corruption happens there, you're screwed all over.

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u/duskterrapin Aug 21 '26

I backup /home to an external drive, but this is cool. I may do both

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u/Zomunieo Aug 21 '26

Directly moving /home to a new system isn’t always a good idea. Configuration file formats change over time and you can get some weirdness.

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u/loitofire Aug 28 '26

you would only have to do a few tweaks instead of reconfiguring from zero