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@marxistvegan Heh, I've been there :) Now I've just decided to stick with stability. Although I've been tempted by wheezy&gnome3 recently :)
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I get tempted every once in a while to run testing, but since this is my production machine, I don'…
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@tonybaldwin Yeah, that's my reasoning as well. I've got a netbook that's less important where I sometimes experiment with distros.
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I run multiple distros on my desktop, so I can switch when I feel like it. Only resulted in disaster once when PCLinuxOS wiped a partition
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@gomerx recently a Fedora install hosed the DE configuration in my home directory such that Ubuntu's desktop would no longer come up.
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@gomerx I used to test a lot of distros, but now I'm sticking with one a at a time. I guess I'm getting old :)
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Oh, I don't share a /home partition or anything else between distros. My data is on an NFS share, and each distro has it's own config.
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I haven't tried anything new lately, but I usually keep Ubuntu, Fedora and LFS around in addition to Debian.
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@gomerx that's a good idea, I have a bad habit of putting things I'm working on in ~ and then trying to re-use it in multiple installs.
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@psquid also had an idea to store dotfiles under version control and share them between installs. I've not implemented this yet.
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But yes, I usually do an install, set up autofs to mount my NFS shares as needed and suddenly all my data is available.
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@gomerx suddenly, data
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Yes. Linux is made out of magic.
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@gomerx i would be interested in your strategy, i couldn't find a satisfactory way to make a comfortable workflow for it
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@gomerx and pixie dust.
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Strategy for multiple installs or for making NFS shares work? That would be a good article topic for the tech blog I'm trying to start.
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@gomerx Once upon a time, I had a ~ shared between SunOS, Irix, and AIX. Back when app writers fought against "all the world is a Vax."
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Back then I imagine a shared home directory would be less likely to get trashed by a DE.
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@gomerx to collect the multiplicity of dotfiles in a coherent way for collection/deployment [short of putting ~ under version control]
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@gomerx I've got all my important dot-files from $HOME in a git repo, so that I'll have same stuff across machines (home, work, netbook).
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I don't have a good system. I've got .vimrc .netrc .gitconfig I copy to the new install. I usually have to tweak .bash* per distro
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I have a perverse tendency to just leave things close to default so I can feel at home on a fresh install.
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If you ran the same distro everywhere, that would be perfect.
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@gomerx Well, I've got debian at home and netbook. Ubuntu at work. And debian on some servers I use. So yes :)
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Yes, for most stuff Debian and Ubuntu are close enough. My 3 main systems are Debian, Fedora and CentOS, which is crazy.
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@gomerx I'd prefer Debian at work as well, but looking at what other people have to deal with I guess I'm lucky we've at least got Ubuntu :)
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@gomerx you have a good taste for distro's sir.
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@vk7hse For me it's debian on server, netbook & desktop. And let's not talk about girlfriends laptop at all :)
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Yes. I taste them a lot, so I know which on tastes good.
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@sazius well I put it to the wife, if you want windows you have to maintain it! :-D
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I used PCLinuxOS for a while. I even rolled my own mini-distro for translators based on PCFluxboxOS (LinguasOS http://tonyb.us/8 )
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