There's already, like, debootstrap and co
@alexandria I think I did something like this with `chroot` when I bungled an arch install.
But that was with a freshly (if admittedly incorrectly) formatted drive so I wasn't worried about losing anything.
Good luck
@az Ah, yeah I've done that before. This is slightly different :)
The main reason pushing me to do this is because ubuntu has started just randomly fucking up and slowing down for no observable reason.