[mdlug] REcommendations for Partiton with shared home directory?

[Aaron Kulkis]

What is your purpose for installing so many different distributions?

It really is NOT like having a pick up truck AND an SUV AND a sports car
AND luxury sedan in the driveway, and driving different ones for different
sorts of outings. (Hauling stuff, hauling your family, attending a party
with your wife, etc.)

Instead, it will be like having several models of the same car, but with
different paint jobs.

Seriously, there's more variation in desktop environments than all of the
rest of any differences between several distributions after you have the
software you want installed.

LibreOffice runs just the same on ALL distributions.  Same thing goes for
any other user application or software service (like a file server, ftp
server, web server).

Putting 5 different distros on your hard drive just means you have 5 copies
of LibreOffice installed on your hard drive.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 15:27 Robert James Fulner <fulner at alumni.nmu.edu>
wrote:

> Recently I bought my first new laptop in over a decade, one of the reasons
> I fell in love with GNU/Linux was the ability to keep old hardware working
> well past its "expiration date."
>
> Anyway one of the things I like best about GNU/Linux is just the fun of
> playing with different distros. To this day Debian is still my favorite,
> but there are some I've never played with that I'd like to and I'd like to
> be able to have all my documents, media, etc. available regularly from any
> system I log into.
>
> The few searches I have done on sharing home directories have mostly been
> 10+ years old so I'm not sure how much they say is still acurate for today.
>
> They said the biggest concern with doing so is having the "hidden" config
> files for different versions of the same program may cause issues. I'm
> planning on using different DEs for each so if I use the defaults I would
> think I woudl avoid that for the most part, though I'm not so certainly
> about the lower level programs.
>
> So here's what I have to work with and what I'm thinking for a partition.
>
> 500GB Hd with 32GB RAM.
>
> Windows 11 (200 GB)
> Swap (2GB)
> HOME 275 GB
> Debian Testing (XFCE) 5GB
> PC Linux OS (Trinity) 5GB
> Gentoo (X11 w/JWM) 5GB
> Trisquel (GNOME) 5GB
> Flavor of the week 5GB (be able to keep a partition I can easily wipe and
> put whatever I feel like play with next.
>
> How does that look? Is 5GB enough for a full feature distro these days? Any
> recommendation of particular tool to do the partition and in which order to
> do so. In the past I've tried using the wizards built into
> Debian/Ubuntu/etc. and adding additional partitions later has seemed like a
> pain. Any particular files systems recommended? Ideally, I'd like the
> contents of my home directory to be able to be available via the Windows
> Partition too, but I'm guessing that would mean I'd need NTFS, I'm not sure
> how well the GNU/Linux distros would handle that, particularly for a 100%
> free distro like Trisquel.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Jim Fulner
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