Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

[Liam Proven]

On 31 July 2015 at 13:31,  <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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.


I've been doing this since about 1997 without problems. If you
specifically want to keep 2 distros separate, because of different
versions of the same apps, then just use a different username. Problem
solved.


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