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General Schvantzkoph

IMHO, no it's not. I personally never use ahome parbreastion.

This is true, but there's no rule which says you must put your data inhome. I put my data on an nfs-samba file server. On that file server, I have my data in its own non-system parbreastion, rather thanhome.

Putting data in a non-system custom parbreastion instead ofhome is very convenient since you don't have to deal with any crud that any distribution puts inhome. For example, Mepis crams in an ungodly amount of default directories and files and stuff in the default user's home directory.

Also, you don't have to worry about having problems with settings files when different distributions use different versions of software. For example, what if you tried out a distribution with KDE3.5, and then try to revert to one with KDE3.4? KDE3.4 isn't going to be happy with all the unfamiliar stuff in the ~-.kdedirectory...

Overall, I find the downsides of sharinghome to outweigh the upsides. I prefer to just keep separatehome directories within the parbreastions. Anything withinhome which I want to share, I'll do so with manually created symlinks.

Isaac Kuo