2 different distros using same /home with same user

[Tom H]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 18:50, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6 August 2012 17:24, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For the record, you prefer Unity to GNOME-Shell not GNOME 3. If you
>>>> have Unity installed, you have GNOME 3 installed.
>>>
>>> This is a tad pedantic, but true, which is the specific reason I
>>> advised the OP /not/ to use this combination.
>>
>> Pedantic but accurate. That's why.how I have GNOME 3 installed with
>> both Unity and GNOME-Shell, happily so.
>
> Yes, I've done that, too.
>
> But from 2 different distros, sharing the same A/C & home dir? *That*
> was the question being asked here.

Sorry, forgot about that! :(

I wouldn't even share a $HOME between two Unity installs...

I dual-boot Fedora and Ubuntu and have "~/data" mounted in both, where
I keep files that I want to share between both installs.