<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
When I am multi-booting a computer between different distros, I share<br>
a home filesystem but use different user accounts. So, for instance,<br>
on my own laptop, I have Ubuntu 11.10 with user "lproven" and Linux<br>
Mint Debian Edition with user "liam". This is perfectly safe.<br></blockquote><div><br>So suppose if you have logged in with "liam" (booting LInux Mint Debian Edition), you get the desktop of "liam". Now from this desktop can you see the items of "lproven" (the user of Ubuntu 11.10)...doubt...If both the users would have been named as "universe" (say, for example) we must/could (?) have been having two different home directories....since both the users belong to different distro though they share the common '/home'....however, I am not going to do this, why to increase the complications...but since I am noob, out of curiosity, just have confusions....<br>
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My work laptop has Mint 9, Mint 12, Ubuntu 11.10 and I think something<br>
else as well. All use different usernames. </blockquote><div><br>To have the different usernames causes no problem, no complications, that is the best policy, I guess...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
On the other hand, you can safely share a single home directory<br>
between different installs of the same (or similar) distros. My<br>
desktop has 2 installs of Ubuntu 11.10 - my original one, which failed<br>
the day after I upgraded, and a new, troubleshooting install in a<br>
different partition. Both share /home/lproven with no problems. The<br>
clean install now runs GNOME Shell and the original install Unity -<br>
these do not clash at all.<br></blockquote><div><br>In this case it is necessary that both the user names are same which share the same home directory, since otherwise, it is not a possibility...(?)...<br> <br></div><div>
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If you (e.g.) run KDE on one OS and GNOME on the other, say, it works<br>
fine - they don't trample on one another's settings. You sometimes get<br>
the odd stray desktop icon from one OS that does nothing on the other,<br>
but mostly, it's fine.<br></blockquote><div><br>But in this case too, it is (always?) better to have the user names different....and if same, still they would have two home directories under the same shared '/home' partition or would have a single directory..?<br>
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But for this reason, now, I use separate user accounts. That causes no<br>
problems at all.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ah, that without any complications...!<br><br>Thanks.<br></div></div>