I have often done a fresh install of a new distribution while leaving the /home partition as was and only had minor issues. The issue is that the menu will probably need some manual adjustment as lots of uninstalled packages may be linked to. But this was very minor.
The nightmare with upgrades recently is not clean installs and /home, but the insane things Gnome has done to the desktop and the even madder things KDE has done to Kontact, which makes upgrading the system a real issue. The solution for Kontact is Cherrytree and Claws. If you are doing a clean install you can't pin Kontact to the current version, is the problem. The solution to Gnome is Mate. I have only twice done this going from 32 bit to 64 bit. It was no different than in the other cases, so I don't think that installing a 64 bit version while keeping the /home partition that dates to the 32 bit version is particularly problematic. I would take the / partition to EXT4 if doing a clean install. Sooner or later you will want to take the /home partition there too. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Linux-32-bit-to-64-bit-tp4695357p4695470.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode