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Having your home directory on a different disk is something that could've saved me a lot of headache. Can't believe I didn't think of that.
In a lot of distros at least, you can just reinstall in place, which has the same effect.
I think it's becoming default on more and more Linux installers
It used to be. I think it changed at some point to make installs easier for new people who were used to only having a single C:.