I’ve been mucking around with my operating system setup for reasons too tedious to describe here. One hilarious bit of hijinx involved trying to use the Nobara repository exactly in the way it says not to…

It is NOT recommended to try to upgrade your Fedora installation to Nobara and support for doing so will not be provided.

Turns out, there are reasons.

But, the point of this post is actually a nice thing I discovered:

  • When you install fedora, by default your /home/ directory is placed on a BTRFS subvolume
  • If you ever need to install again, the Fedora installer recognizes the subvolume and can preserve it.

In the past, if you wanted to re-install a distro and preserve all of your files, you either needed the foresight to put /home' on it’s own partition or device, or have backups. Now, it’s no big deal.