I let Discover handle updating to Fedora 42 and got a kernel panic error, so I backed up /home/ and did a fresh install of Fedora 42.
I started my restoration by nuking /home/ with sudo rm -R /home/ and then copied everything over via Dolphin as stuff was slowly torn asunder as parts unloaded from RAM. Everything seems intact so far…
Everything in Linux is flat files. Don’t panic.
Back up ~/home, do a clean install, then drop your stuff back in.
Just curious what do you mean by flat files? Do other operations systems include parts that aren’t actually visible files you can interact with?