Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

[W Scott Lockwood III]

This will be my last response, I feel like we're (as usual) talking past 
each other.

On 7/31/2015 11:27 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 31 July 2015 at 18:22, William Scott Lockwood III<scott at guppylog.com>  wrote:
>> >For extremely limited, specific versions of "Works". You keep moving
>> >the goal posts here, Liam. That's completely different from sharing a
>> >/home partition between two distros. That's selecting a distro and
>> >staying with it. Not the same thing at all.
> My main PC has Ubuntu 15.04, Crunchbang and Arch on it, all sharing
> one /home but with 3 different user accounts. Previously, I have had
> 4+ distros on a single machine -- e.g. the current Ubuntu and the LTS
> plus 2 or 3 alternatives. If one is trying out distros and desktops,
> it works very well. It's more efficient in disk space, it's easier to
> switch environments for testing purposes. The only issue is
> remembering which username goes with which distro. :¬)
>
> Really, it works, and when you have to do an upgrade or anything, it
> pays for itself in time and effort saved.
And the problem here is, as was mentioned in a previous post, some 
distro's have different versions of Evolution, not all of which might be 
compatible with one another. So you've decided to make different user 
directories in /home - that's great - unless you actually want to USE 
Evolution for email on all of them. If you attempt to share the portion 
of your user directory that houses your Evolution data, you're risking 
corruption. If you duplicate it, you're wasting TONS of space, and your 
data stores WILL immediately begin to diverge, making any effort at 
deduplication practically impossible. IF (and this is a big if) all the 
distros you use treat Evolution the same way and use the same or similar 
enough versions, then this approach is fine. If not - as I said, the 
solution simply does not scale. This isn't about if it works for you, 
one single person, with one single computer, with one single /home 
directory with multiple accounts. If you do choose to respond, please 
address the Evolution angle, because you haven't. If you don't that's 
fine, you either understand what I wrote or you don't. I have no more 
time for this today.