this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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