On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Aere Greenway <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil: > > Yes, we do tend to have very different hardware setups among ourselves. I > am particularly notorious for that sort of thing. > > Your comment about having a separate partition for "/home" brings to mind a > question whose answer I have long pondered, and could possibly allow me to > try that again (it's been years). > > Say, you have a machine with a Lubuntu (LXDE), Ubuntu (GDE/Unity), > Ubuntu-Studio (XFCE), and Kubuntu (KDE) system on it (in separate > partitions). And say, on that machine, you have a single, separate > partition whose mount-point is "/home" in each of the system partitions. > > Are the (hidden) configuration files used by the differing system components > in the various desktop environments, separate enough, that you could > actually run the various 'flavors' of Ubuntu using the same "/home" > partition?
I have not tested it myself, but if you have the same settings on common components, they will work OK in theory. Also you can install the various graphical desktops in the same installation of buntu, by installing the corresponding "desktop" packages (ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop). > That could be very useful for me, if it could work. If you want to test the various Linux distributions, VirtualBox is better. "Distributions" include all buntu flavours. This is the best option. -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
