Install leaving old 'Home' intact

As long as you do updates from the command line with garuda-update, you may want to install some interactive package manager frontend to help with searching. Just don't use it to update (some can be configured to run Garuda's updater though).

My choice is pacseek which runs in the terminal with a text mode user interface, or seeing you posted under KDE octopi which is graphical (maybe it's already installed, I don't know).
There's a thread going on about this topic, Recommended Package Manager for Garuda .
(P.S. technically speaking, those are not package managers proper, there is only one package manager and it's pacman).

Did I say use garuda-update? Well I say it again, it takes care of housekeeping tasks that are easy to forget or do wrong, and can even fix a messed up system (within limits).

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