Favorite flavor of Linux.

[PimpQ]

Most Linux distributions these days have an installer that takes care of that for you.

You don't necessarily need a partition called home, but it is a good to have the home directories in a separate partition, so that user files don't fill up the /root partition.

That's why I love ubuntu, they do it as /home/(user)

In ubuntu server, it's /root, where most data is handled, such as compiling.