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<p>Awhile back, I got tired of different distro's dot files. What I
do is make my home directory be a subdirectory. Thus, I use
/home/jcottrell/r7 for CentOS/RHEL 7 and /home/jcottrell/f29 be my
Fedora home. Anything I want to share, I move up a level and
replace it with a symlink.</p>
<p>Whether this is done by different password entries (less common
as accounts move to Active Directory and similar) or by my shell
profiles (figure out where I should be, cd there and reset HOME)
is left to the reader's imagination.</p>
<p>JIM</p>
<p>P.S. I first encountered this problem with dissimilar distros:
RHEL 4 and Slackware back in the day.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/19 11:19 PM, Howard Bampton
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<div dir="ltr">95% of the time you can share $HOME. I have
(admittedly in the UNIX(tm) world or mixing UNIX(tm) and Linux)
seen issues with settings for your windowing system being
slightly incompatible and causing interesting failure modes. If
your windowing session crashes immediately upon login on one OS
but not the other, this could be the problem. Figuring out which
file(s) and possibly settings in a file can be "fun".</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:52 PM
Bryan Smith <<a href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is
your current distro not working in some way?<br>
Also, what desktop are you using currently?<br>
<br>
I don't recommend changing distributions if there is nothing
wrong.<br>
At most, I'd install them side-by-side, multi-boot.<br>
<br>
They can even use the same /home file system, with separate
/boot,<br>
root (/), etc...<br>
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- bjs<br>
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:46 AM Wesley Wright <<a
href="mailto:wwwinsky@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">wwwinsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Bryan:<br>
> Thanks for the info. I am looking to switch from Fedora
28 to Ubuntu 18.x later this year. I tested the live DVD on my
system and all my hardware (printer, video card, sound card)
works. Not sure if my Diamond ATI USB TV capture card will
work.<br>
> Wesley<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPhone<br>
><br>
> On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Bryan Smith <<a
href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> This is awesome! I'm a huge fan of
'cheap-works-out-best' results.<br>
><br>
> Even that 4:3 (or 5:4?) 17" monitor isn't really much
less vertical size than those 16:9 (or 16:10?) 22" monitors.
I assume the former could be a 1280x1024, which doesn't make
it far, vertically, from the 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 that most
22" monitors are.<br>
><br>
> - bjs<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 13:13 Wes Westhaver <<a
href="mailto:wes@westhaver.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">wes@westhaver.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks to all who offered advice on my quest for a
multi-monitor Ubuntu workstation.<br>
>><br>
>> I took a little gamble and bought a used Dell
Optiplex 7010 and two 22" Dell monitors. The Optiplex has a
built-in video card that has two DisplayPort ports and one VGA
port. I figured that buying a very common Dell PC would mean
that it's video card would probably be supported by Ubuntu,
and if not I could buy an appropriate video card.<br>
>><br>
>> Once I had the monitors connected with the
DisplayPort cables and Ubuntu loaded, I was pleasantly
surprised that both monitors came to life. No muss, no fuss!
Then I set about finding Linux equivalents for all of my
Windows software. It took a while but I'm very happy to say I
now have a nicely equipped Ubuntu workstation. Bye bye
Windows.<br>
>><br>
>> After a while I got to wondering if the unused VGA
port might support a third monitor. So I hooked up one of my
old 17" Dell monitors and to my delight it came to life too!
So now I have a ton of screen real estate to work with.<br>
>><br>
>> Here's a shot of my system as it stands right now:<br>
>><br>
>> <a
href="http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG</a><br>
>><br>
>> It turns out that multi-monitor support was a not an
issue at all with Ubuntu.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks again,<br>
>> -Wes<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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