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Originally posted by maleadt View Post... causing various incompatibilities due to varying application versions (evolution: been there, done that). Then I'd rather have application-specific but fully functional migration assistants instead of untrackable breaking after having upgraded.
When all applications can guarantee good backwards compatibility though, a separate /home is indeed the way to go
Odd, in all the years that I have used in linux I have never ran across such an issue (granted I gave up on using evolution years ago). Even KDE3 apps to KDE4 apps went smooth. I don't use gnome so perhaps ithe breaking of apps is a gnome feature. I even have one system that has had the same /home directory dating back to SuSE 8 and has been upgraded all the way to 11.1 with no major issues at all.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostThus why a separate default home partition is the way to go.
When all applications can guarantee good backwards compatibility though, a separate /home is indeed the way to go
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostIf that's the case then really your / is too large to begin with. Migration wizards such as the one being offered now actually increase the required amount of space to successfully migrate.
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Originally posted by ethana2 View PostBecause then I run out of space in my /home while I still have space in my / and have to resize stuff and whatnot.
If it were up to me, Ubuntu would default to a swap file instead of a linux-swap partition.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostWhy not just have your /home as a separate partition like most sane distro's default too? No wizards required.
If it were up to me, Ubuntu would default to a swap file instead of a linux-swap partition.
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Why not just have your /home as a separate partition like most sane distro's default too? No wizards required.
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I've customized my app settings for everything from Transmission to Firefox to Rhythmbox..
It needs to import everything in my ~/, as well as make a list of all my installed apps on Ubuntu and let me choose which ones to install with the rest of the OS.
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