debian and ubuntu sharing a /home?

[themillak]

I know it should be as simple as pointing both installs to the same /home partition but how many problems would I be causing for myself if I did this and used the same name? would I be better off having separate /home partitions and just making a separate partition to mount later with docs/music/movies etc?

 

[Nothinman]

I wouldn't trust it because the versions of the individual apps being different may cause issues, especially if both are running Gnome. The newer versions will likely import or upgrade the settings from the older ones which may cause issues when you go back and run the older ones again.

I would just create 2 small /homes and then use symlinks to point things like /home/blah/Videos to the shared filesystem.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

While there is a chance of conflicts due to different versions, it's pretty minimal. I've done this many times, using the same /home partition on many different distros, even multi-booting between 32- and 64-bit. Keep backups just in case, but the worst problems I've seen is when gnome/kde releases a major update.

 

[Nothinman]

While there is a chance of conflicts due to different versions, it's pretty minimal. I've done this many times, using the same /home partition on many different distros, even multi-booting between 32- and 64-bit. Keep backups just in case, but the worst problems I've seen is when gnome/kde releases a major update.

Normally I would agree, but with the major changes Gnome is going through I would expect problems.