I have to agree on the separate /home folder. When I set up my system
I wished to have a good stand alone partition program and was suggested
I try GParted, that was a good suggestion, worked great. It would have been
nice to have a good idea of how much space to allow for the Root file
system
for upgrades and future replacement distributions and ended up with a WAG
(Wild A**ed Guess), so I may end up at some later date having to redo again,
but I don't think I will have a problem.
I am still dual booted but I think I have found a usable replacement for
the
one remaining Windows application I am still using, I still need to load my
information manually and get used to using it. Then I will convert this to
single boot Ubuntu. I still have an issue with using the internal sound card
and have head phones, internal speakers work fine. I can use a USB sound
card and have it work alright so it isn't a deal breaker.
So learn how to partition and create separate /root and /home partitions,
makes life a lot easier, but also remember the first two rules in
Unix/Linux/Windows
system administration.
1.)Back the system up regularly.
2.)Never forget rule one.