On Mon, 31 May 2021 20:51:09 -0000 "Sy retia" <simonizor@protonmail.com> wrote:
openSUSE will never touch your home directory during upgrades.
So if the upgrade includes a new version of some program that uses a different version of a configuration file in your hopme directory, the upgrade will install the new program and leave it broken with the old config? That doesn't sound very helpful, so have I understood you correctly?
A home directory is not usable between multiple installs due to program version differences
As Carlos points out, it can be and it is regularly done, particularly if you organize your directories as I suggested.
A dotfile manager is very easy to use.
What is a dotfile manager?
The use cases for having a separate home partition don't really make sense when you look at the alternatives and how much nicer they are to use.
They make sense to me. YMMV :P PS You don't say what you consider the alternatives to be?