So… started with SuSE way back in the day (5.1 or so), used it for a while, moved away, came back for a visit now and again 
and have been running primarily Ubuntu for the last little while. For a variety of reasons, I’m at the point where I’m starting to seriously reconsider forgoing the ease of software availability (.debs for Ubuntu are more common than rpms in general, much less for opensuse) for the sake of just not having to screw around playing the lottery with whether or not my laptop will boot back into Ubuntu following a kernel or video driver update. The openSUSE interface now is so far removed from what I remember, that it’s going to be like going from PC to Mac in terms of finding where stuff is, what does what, where to config/adjust things…
I do have a lot of stuff accumulated over the years in my /home/$user folder; is there any reasonable option for installing openSUSE over the existing Ubuntu / partition and keeping my /home/$user and /srv/data partitions intact? The latter is actually a second HDD in the laptop, with a little extra room so I was considering just backing up everything to it - or even to a USB3.0 stick that I can physically remove just for safety’s sake during install, if that is the best option. Might be a little tricky as Ubuntu has picked this junction in time to be a pain in my posterior (hence the impetus to switch), and I can’t log into the GUI desktop to move my files around between drives. I can log in via Ctrl+Alt+F1 to tty1 @ the command line, but to be honest… my skillz at maneuvering files/directories around the CLI are a little rusty… :sarcastic:
Thinking about seeing if I can boot to a gui from a USB stick and mount the applicable drives and move things around, then eject them and start the install?
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
TIA,
Monte