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>> Yes, as i said this problem has persisted for a while, across a number of<br>
>> different installs.<br>
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</div>>Installs <> different versions!<br><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">Yes, sorry, different versions. <br><br><div class="">>>What is a parallel install?<br>
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</div>>[Puzzled blink]<br>
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>It means you install another version in its own root partition,<br>
>alongside Windows and your main Linux.<br>
<br>
>It is, FWIW, perfectly safe to share a /home partition between 2<br>
>different installs of the same version of Linux. If you wish to keep<br>
>your account settings separate, e.g. for different versions, then use<br>
>a different username.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">No, i haven't done this. Since i have been through a number of versions, i am not sure doing so would help. Possibly a different linux distribution would show different behaviour (as windows does), but this is not likely going to tell me what the issue is, is it?<br>
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