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Immutable distros and dot files / config files
(lemmy.world)
I'm using Fedora Kinoite since a while, and I really like it. There's just one thing I don't understand, and have a hard time finding an answer to.
What happens in my home directory if I rebase to Silverblue? Like, Gnome and its apps comes with a lot of config files. If I then roll back to Kinoite, will all those files and folders still be there? How can I prevent this cluttering of files and folders that I don't want to keep? I guess the easy answer would be to create a new user and then delete that home directory after rolling back, but I'm wondering if something else will happen. Thank you!
I didn't have this experience? TIL
To be fair, all of that was in the course of less than a week, and I neither heavily use nor customize my personal laptop, so it's likely that if there are issues, I didn't encounter them.
Even so, I was quite impressed with how simple and seamless it was for me.