Switching distros

[sudden flame]

Is there a way to switch distros without eradicating my data?

I'm on mint and I wanna switch to ark or hyperland

[dusky belfry]

first of all, please send output of lsblk -f in a maximized terminal so we can know how much free/total storage space you have

[dusky belfry]

ok. do you have any external drive of any sort?

[sudden flame]

My 64gb stick

[dusky belfry]

yeah, i can see it.

[sudden flame]

Yeah 😭🙏

[dusky belfry]

it seems like you have 100gb used on your main mint installation

how much of that do you need to keep?

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All 🥀

I have very personal things not worth leaving

[dusky belfry]

ok. can you run sudo apt install gparted && sudo gparted in the terminal rq?

[sudden flame]

-# fyi I don't understand most things done in terminal. I may be using Linux for a few years but I barely touch terminal

[dusky belfry]

oh im dumb you have double what I thought

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It's alr

People make mistakes 🤑

[dusky belfry]

doesn't matter. what do you have on your usb rn

[sudden flame]

Just assets I used for a video

[dusky belfry]

would you mind moving them to your main drive temporarily and then installing ventoy on the usb drive?

[sudden flame]

Sure

How do I install tho 😭

[dusky belfry]

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

download the linux archive

extract it

[sudden flame]

I'll ping u once I've done it

[dusky belfry]

and run the VentoyGUI.x86_64 program inside it

[sudden flame]

Extract it using balena ? Then write it to the drive ?

Wait

Nvm I'm dumb 😭

[dusky belfry]

no, just double click it

then press extract in the Archive Manager

did you download the .tar.gz file?

[sudden flame]

Sorry I overthink things 😭

[dusky belfry]

ok now navigate to option->partition style->press gpt

[sudden flame]

Done, then install ?

[dusky belfry]

I forgor whats the exact name

[sudden flame]

You got it spot on 😭

[dusky belfry]

yeah

[dusky belfry]

lol

now

[sudden flame]

It said this been successfully installed in it

[dusky belfry]

when it finishes, go to the Ventoy partition in the file manager

[sudden flame]

Done

[dusky belfry]

there you can put ISOs you wanna boot into, and all other data you'd like

now download gparted live

https://gparted.org/download.php

download the iso file, it should be around half a GB

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Alr

[dusky belfry]

put it in the Ventoy drive and then boot into it

[sudden flame]

How are you this precise 😭

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Alr

[dusky belfry]

I have done this some times, I just know lmao

[sudden flame]

I feel like you've prepared for this XD

[dusky belfry]

im not the only one who memorized it in here lol dw

[sudden flame]

I'll boot into it once I finish my hw

[dusky belfry]

oh ok gl

[sudden flame]

But once I get there, what do I do incase your not around ?

[dusky belfry]

ill be around dw

even if i won't, just resize your mint partition to leave enough free space for all data you ever need

then create a new partition in place of the unallocated space

reboot back into mint

copy all your files into there

and youre done! feel free to install any other os you'd like over the first 2 partitions

[sudden flame]

So to summarize

[dusky belfry]

dont summarize just yet

[sudden flame]

Alright

[dusky belfry]

youre still not done. patience😉

[sudden flame]

Yes 🙏

I'll get back to you once I can reboot

[dusky belfry]

ok

[sudden flame]

I gotta finish 2 more homeworks then I'm free 🙏🤑

[dusky belfry]

feel free to ping me

[sudden flame]

@lapis thunder @pearl prairie can I atleast talk here ?

[pearl prairie]

Of course, you can talk in support and topic specific channels.
(unless you start being annoying here too)

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Alr

@dusky belfry I'll try to boot into it now

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@dusky belfry

I'm booting into ventoy