do you know that minecraft mod that autosorts your inventory? is there are project that can autosort a messy file system and put all of your files of a similar nature into a well organised, well named order. obviously this would require ai that could do image, language, and audio recognition but is there anything in the works? i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x. ai powered file management

    • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Partitions.

      Many distros will partition your disk as /, /home, and swap.

      If you want to, when installing a different distro, you can manually format and install the system to / and not format /home but flag it to be mounted as home.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        This can cause issues with configuration files if you change to a distro that has older versions of some programs.

        • federalreverse-old@feddit.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          Upgrades/downgrades can always cause issues, but more often than not you’re totally fine, especially during upgrades. I tend to declutter my home a little too. E.g. I keep the configurations for Firefox and Thunderbird but delete their cache, for Inkscape I may keep my custom palettes only. For a lot of Gnome tools, I just delete all the configuration, especially for stuff that I only use once a month. However, the major issue during that process for me is that accidents happen occasionally.

        • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
          1·
          10 months ago

          Oh it certainly can! I haven’t done it like this in a long time. My hopping days are all but over and the main things I need to backup are music, photos, and books. As long as I have them on some external drive I just wipe it all and start over. Still, though, the option is there.

    • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      Typically you keep you /home on a separate drive or partition. Your /root and /swp are on others. When you install the new OS you do custom partitions and mount options install the OS on the root then mount /home to your home partition/drive.

      You’ll still have to install the applications again, but all of your configs and history is still there. It feels surreal the first time you do it.