Can I share my home between a Mint and Ubuntu?

[Brian]

Considered just mounting your homedir via nfs?

Brian

On 12/5/2021 3:10 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 19:03, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a couple of oldish (10 years) HP laptops which I use to experiment with
>> and they currently both are Ubuntu 20.04.3 desktops.
>>
>> Now after reading responses in thread:
>> "What tools to work with pkgs installed thru snap system"
>> where it was mentioned that Mint could be an interesting system for me.
> Sure, if you wish.
>
>> So I would like to check if Linux Mint is more to my liking.
>>
>> But I would like to share the home folder between them if possible.
> Folder, no. Partition, yes.
>
> Keep the /home partition in a separate filesystem and you'll be fine.
>
> If you use different usernames, they'll ignore one another: e.g.
> Ubuntu used `bou` and Mint user `bom` then there will be no issues.
>
> If you use the same username... well some weird stuff might happen.
>
> Mint offers 3 desktops by default: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce.
>
> Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3. If you dual-boot GNOME Ubuntu and Mint
> Cinnamon, some config files will be shared by both and weird stuff may
> occur.
>
> If you run, say, Ubuntu Mate and Mint Mate, weird stuff will definitely happen.
>
> If you run unrelated desktops, e.g. GNOME and Xfce, then it should be all right.
>
> Second thing to note:
>
> This will only work on MBR and BIOS boot.
>
> Mint has not renamed its UEFI boot loader; it is still called
> "ubuntu". So as I understand it, you can't dual-boot Mint and Ubuntu
> using UEFI, unless you do something weird and nonstandard like have 2
> separate UEFI system partitions. I would not  recommend that.
>
>