I’m looking at upgrading a new laptop with a small 256 gb SSD drive. My plan is to use the SSD drive and install both ubuntu-mate and a disro called kxstudio. I want to use the existing 1 tb hdd as a common /home or /home-ish directory for all my common files. kxstudio is specifically designed for AV applications and as a result can have radically different configs and whatnot. I’m thinking of going with “lightweight” home directories in each distro on the SSD with just configs and whatever the system may need to operate so the distros and programs don’t interfere with each other and putting everything else (Downloads, Music, Videos, Documents, etc.) on the separate HDD.
I was thinking of using symbolic links but it seems this process could end up being pretty kludgy. I also want to encrypt the drive with the files or preferably both drives but I’m not sure how that might affect usability. I don’t have the new laptop yet and I don’t have enough space on my old laptop to test this out in a vm, so I’m just gathering opinions to find out if this approach is even worth investing the money and trying out.
For those familiar with kxstudio, I want to install the distro separately instead of using the repos in ubuntu-mate because in the past the adding the repos has cause stability issues.
If there’s a better approach, I’m open to suggestions. The only thing is I want to be able to access files for both distros and a single directory, disk or partition would be most ideal