Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There’s no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”
Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially no partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.
@convexer Never happened to me in twenty five years. How did he managed to do it?
@convexer I’m going to assume his distro installs stuff on /home, which is a big no-no for me.
@josemanuel Don't you have a ~/.config folder?
@convexer What about it?
@josemanuel I also know this guy who has corrupted his configs by reinstalling around a static home partition indiscriminately