[Bob434]

if I’m running linux mint cinnamon right now- can i move my /home folder to it’s own partition and isntall the ubunto cinnamon version and have it work?

[ShadowAce]

I believe so (I'm not familiar with the Mint installer).

1. Back up everything in /home/
2. Create a new partition and mount it somewhere under /mnt
3. cp -R everything in your /home/<user>/* to /mnt/<user>/. (be sure to include the .* files also)
4. During the installation, specify your new partition as /home.

That should do it. From now on, you should just be able to mount that partition under /home whenever re-installing.