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

Ublue advices against rebasing between different DEs.

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, they do indeed have a warning at the top about that. Thanks for the heads up!

Kinda unfortunate, I guess I'm stuck here then, because there's no way I'm starting from scratch with all my modded games, emulators, etc.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe all you have to do is backup and restore your home folder though.

[–] goreverminski@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I've definitely seen people do it successfully. Mending Wall exists, too, though I'm not sure if it applies here.