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Originally Posted by waffle
I used sysprep to change the <FolderLocations><ProfileDirectory> variable. The closest linux equiv I can think of is changing someone's homedir in /etc/passwd.
No it's not, you're doing the equivalent of changing /home, not just /home/someuser. Don't do that. Even for the limited case of changing the home directory of root, I noticed that the answer is the same for Ubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/20985...tory-in-ubuntu
Don't do it.
And no this isn't supported in Windows:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tory?forum=mdt
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If you change it to /mnt/anotherdrive/home/john, are you suddenly unable to upgrade ubuntu? no.
This is the installer being stupid, but yes but installers randomly being spooked by non-standard settings is completely standard across operating system distributions. I couldn't even upgrade ubuntu from one relatively recent version to the latest without going through an intermediate version, not to mention the double upgrade breaking a bunch of repository settings and having to be fixed manually. And the whole upgrade was necessitated by some private repository being somehow set up only for a specific distribution despite not requiring anything that distribution. My Windows 7 is a lot older than the version of Ubuntu I had and everything works fine.
If you have weird deviations in system settings, do you expect Linux upgrades to pick that up exactly the way you intend? My experience is that, some settings get overwritten, some settings can preserved in a suboptimal way or one that prevents future programmatic changes and sometimes I get a asked a hundred questions I don't know how to answer and sometimes it silently does whatever it likes overwriting things. And don't get me started on the state of GNOME/KDE/Unity, etc. That's the state of computing today.
None of this is meant to be criticism of Ubuntu or whatever, but I'm surprised coming from the linux world, you guys aren't used to things breaking all the time. I love tinkering and making non-working things work so I don't mind this either way, but it's really strange to take Windows to task for breaking as a result of your tinkering when it's so much easier to tinker your way into a non-working system in Linux.