Nobody has asked a dumb/weird question in quite a while, so I guess it is up to me again.
As part of some research I am doing (either for the TED talk I will never give or the book I will never publish, haven't decided which yet) I want to play around with some different distros, particularly desktops. How much are Linux desktops integrated with their distros? Will I get the full flavor of each desktop if I just install in whatever Linux I am running (currently Ubuntu Studio 13.04 on this machine) or should I put in the whole distro for each? I have a largish (389 gig) windows partition on this machine that has become essentially useless (all my data backed up elsewhere, I think, please Goddess) so should I just go ahead and try various distros on this machine and boot into whichever one I want to use/try at any given time? I don't even know, for example, what my experience would be like if I put Unity, for example, on this distro. What I do know is that everything chosen for it seems to work well with it, and I have been reluctant to mess with it much. Please don't panic – the book isn't about software; I am not that into quicksand stomping! It is about education and various monetization methods that might work for education building on an Open Source foundation. But I want to encourage newbies and even Luddites to come and play in Linux, so I need to know what to suggest that won't leave them hating Linux and me both. Onward and Upward! Pete
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