Can I share my home between a Mint and Ubuntu?

[Peter Flynn]

On 05/12/2021 21:47, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 18:56:14 +0000, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> 
>> You seem to be describing the sharing of the /home partition between
>> multiple-boot (or concurrent VM) instances of Linux /on the same
>> machine/. You said at the top you have two laptops. Did you want them to
>> share one /home between them, or for each one to host two OSs?
> 
> I just mentioned that I have 2 laptops for context...
> 
> What I want to test is installing a second Linux on one of them in order to
> evaluate usage between Ubuntu Desktop and Mint desktops (there seem to be
> several to choose from). That would be with dual-boot.

Thanks for clarifying. Yes, that will work, but you need to check that
the configurations for the applications are consistent between versions
installed under the two OSs.

Peter