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Can also vouch for Pop_OS .Can't tell how much having recovery partition added saved me from reinstalling os again :)
How does the recovery partition work? I mean, I always thought it was a "copy" of the iso so that you can reinstall the system without an external USB drive
One really cool thing that you can do with the recovery partition is to reinstall but keep everything in your home directory intact. I think it's called refresh installation. Very handy to recover from a bad situation without much hassle. Imo more distros should have a recovery partition.
Ok I think it's time to create the recovery partition (I didn't create it during the installation)