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Personally I don't use a separate
/homepartition. Software versions can differ significantly between distros and this has plenty of potential to effectively fuck up your system anyhow*.I use a separate data partition instead, and hook it into my home with symlinks. Pictures, Documents, Videos etc. - these are usually those that take the most disk space anyhow, by a large margin.
I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.