#reinstalling mint without losing data

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raven sleet Jan 11, 2024, 11:54 PM

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i have xfce I "fucked around and found out" and now i want to go back to the basic layout it had upon install, BUT i dont want to delete any of my personal/application files in the process.
Is is possible?

little jetty Jan 12, 2024, 11:13 PM

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The layout is messed or the core and package system?

raven sleet Jan 14, 2024, 4:50 PM

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little jetty The layout is messed or the core and package system?

no i installed a bunch of environments because i wanted my system to look like macos

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but i didnt know that you should probably delete older enviroments or else there would be overlap and slowdown (and instability)

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anyways i just decided fuck it and restarted the whole thing from scratch but it would be nice to know how for next time

little jetty Jan 14, 2024, 5:46 PM

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I don't think there's a 'reset' simple way to undo the changes on a given desktop environment. some do have a 'set to default' button but that's on each window of a setting

little jetty Jan 15, 2024, 2:48 AM

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You can do a full copy of your home folder to preserve application settings, plus any saved documents onto another drive. that Home folder can get pasted back into a new install.