Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

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On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:21:37 +0200 Liam Proven wrote:
> Partition your disk with /home in a separate partition, shared by all
> of them, and then switching distros is as easy as rebooting.

No, some data could become incompatible. In the past Evolution e.g.
changed the format of the stored mails. This unlikely will happen
again, but Evolution anyway still is a good example, since other data
used by it, is often converted by updates and after that not backwards
compatible. This could happen for any app, especially when different
major versions are used and some known developers are already that
ignorant, that they don't care about compatibility within dot releases.
The risk that things break within dot releases especially is very high,
when using desktop environments, so recommending a desktop environment
and claiming that sharing /home is as easy as a reboot is reckless. I
stopped using desktop environments and use window managers only, but
anyway would be careful.

Regards,
Ralf, aka Nick Name :D