07-14-2016, 02:59 AM
Hi Mike,
In addition to what firenice03 has pointed out which covers the installation process itself and the possibility to keep "/home".
No doubt you can always keep your home folder and if it's by restoring a backup after installation. For all your actual documents/data files you have in your home folder this definitely makes sense and won't cause any problems.
That might be different however with all the configuration files you have in your home folder! The question is whether they will cause problems when they get used with software (including the Desktop environment) having been upgraded to a higher version with a new release/installation.
Therefore - as also pointed out in this post - I always prefer a clean/new start. Then I restore my actual data files and only specifically selected (and tested) configuration files.
All the best
In addition to what firenice03 has pointed out which covers the installation process itself and the possibility to keep "/home".
No doubt you can always keep your home folder and if it's by restoring a backup after installation. For all your actual documents/data files you have in your home folder this definitely makes sense and won't cause any problems.
That might be different however with all the configuration files you have in your home folder! The question is whether they will cause problems when they get used with software (including the Desktop environment) having been upgraded to a higher version with a new release/installation.
Therefore - as also pointed out in this post - I always prefer a clean/new start. Then I restore my actual data files and only specifically selected (and tested) configuration files.
All the best