Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


Yes and no. If the user doesn't know that to begin with, the data can
easily get corrupted. Also, this would require the user to now keep
two different Evolution datastores, which will become incomplete and
divergent immediately.

This solution does not scale.

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W. Scott Lockwood III