When i install Cinnamon it provide me to install Mint new with another old system preserving the documents or to overide all.
I think this option should be expanded allowing the user to override the old system preserving the documents folder.
In other word an option with which i select a folder or more folder in the old system that can be preserved and copied in the new.
I said this because sometime linux crash and i need to reeinstall, i could recovery the document but i needed to copy from the crashed to the new after istallation.
Installation menu
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Re: Installation menu
The way people do this is generally to make a separate /home partition (using the 'Something Else' installation option) and then choose not to format that during the new installation.

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Re: Installation menu
I go even further than Moem (Who's advice is sound) and keep all of my critical data on a separate drive. I can then safely blow everything away on my OS drive and not risk forgetting something.
Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Laptop T4500 Dualcore 4Gb RAM
Server AMD Phenom 9650 - GEForce 9400GT 6Gb RAM
+ three other Linux Mint machines
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Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Laptop T4500 Dualcore 4Gb RAM
Server AMD Phenom 9650 - GEForce 9400GT 6Gb RAM
+ three other Linux Mint machines
Out of my mind - please leave a message