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Question: I'm running Linux Mint right now. Is it possible to change distro to ... for example OpenSuse - without a clean install ?

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I’ve read some stories of someone transmuting Ubuntu into Debian or something like that. It requires lots of knowledge of both systems, plenty of time, and infinite patience. The two distributions should be somewhat closely related in order to make this gargantuan project even remotely feasible. If you’re jumping from Arch to Gentoo, you might as well just do LFS while you’re at it.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe you can install the Arch package manager on gentoo

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, that’s a good start. At least one corner stone can be placed easily. The rest of the journey won’t be that easy though.