How To Install Linux (with or w/o separated /home partition)

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Linux is a diverse system, and this is also reflected in its installer software. you basically will find 4 major options. - The Ubuntu installer, called Ubiquity - The elementary installer, that only PopOs uses for now, but elementary OS will move to it for elementary 6 - The Manjaro / calamares installer - The Fedora / Anaconda installer

Keyboard and language selection There is nothing much to it, just choose the language you want for your distro install, and the kayboard layout. Don’t hesitate to try out the various weird keys to make sure that everything is correct and works well with your keyboard. Automatic detection is not too bad either to help you get to the right keyboard layout if you’re confused by the many, many layout available.

Partitions The first thing you’ll have to take care of is select what kind of install you want to do. Generally, you’ll get 3 choices: - Erase the whole disk and install the distro - Install alongside your existing OS - Select what to do manually

Probably a lot of you have heard about having a separate /home partition, and what that would mean. Honestly, if you’re a beginner, do not bother with that. Having a separate /home partition can be useful if you plan to change linux distributions often and don’t want to bother with copying your data back to your new system.

If you really want to have a separate /home partition, you must choose the manual partitioning option. Be aware that any errors here could result in your existing OS being wiped, or data being lost, so be very careful. Let’s see how to manually partition and install your distro:

Manual install Linux stores everything in a main directory called “/”. You can put the various subfolders of “/” in their dedicated partitions, such as /home, which is the folder that contains all of the users and their files. To do so, you can use the manual partitioning tool of the installer to map the /home folder to a specific partition. We will need to create multiple partitions, which are virtual slices of your disk. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFJ2fGtmKs