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[Mr_Magoo]

My best recommendation would be to reinstall, using ext4 or ZFS. That ensures that the OS runs well.

Then, have an external drive for all your personal files, formatted as NTFS.

This has some distinct advantages:

1. The drive is external, so if you have to bug out due to an emergency, you can just grab that drive and run... plug that drive into any computer capable of reading NTFS (which should be pretty much any computer), and you've got access to your files.

2. If the OS glitches and has to be reinstalled or rolled back to a previous iteration, all your personal files are safe on that external drive.

If you want to get fancy, you can do this:

Point the Zorin OS-provided user directories to directories on an external drive

[Binding] The Zorin OS-provided user directories should be empty for this, as bind-mounting them hides the already-existing contents (the content's not gone, you just can't access it, because when you click on that directory, it takes you to the external drive's directory). First, on the external drive, create the Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos directories. Find the paths to each of those directories. For the Zorin OS-provided user directories: /home/$USER/Documents /home/$USER…