Are there issues with sharing /home and other directories between linux distributions on the same system? What about sharing between linux and bsd?

Just curious.

  • jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Not really, no. The only hypothetical issue is configs between your programs clashing due to version differences. IME, though, that’s a rare problem except with maybe Firefox, which can be a stickler for version numbers.

  • 347_is_p69
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know how BSD works, but linux has $XDG_ configs in homedir of user for most configuration files.

    You could sidestep any conflicts by just changing your linux-systems $XDG_ -environmental variables to something like ~/.local.linux, ~/.config.linux and so on.

    Ultimately almost any path under $HOME can ba changed with corresponding environmental variable in linux - so you can split directories if necessary.

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Prolly not good to share home, but otherwise I’ve shared directories between anything that supports the same fs