dalto8
commented
1 year ago Yes, we don't currently support this.
That being said, I am not sure we should support this. It would result in a degraded experience since our user config wouldn't get copied in.
It is also very easy to work around. Simply don't mount your /home partition in manual partitioning and mount it post-install.
CurrentSubset68
potential variables: swapping from GRUB to systemd-boot not wiping /root
I was re-installing on my laptop, and replaced the partitions in manual partitioner with /efi, /root and /home, for recovery reasons. I wanted my account to be called the same/ stay the same, don't really mind which one it is, but I just wanted it to be my name. half way through installation it came up with the error that the account already exists, which meant I had to wipe my drive to get around the problem. this is not good if I am trying to recover in the future, as this deleted /home as well. there's probably a way to avoid this, but I just thought that a "overwrite current user" or "install without making a user" option would be helpful and less tedious. I have no idea what the dev time would be for this tho so if u can't do something like this that's fine. stupidly, I didn't record the logs. damn.