Hi, the original poster could install several Ubuntu flavours parallel, to get a dual-boot or multi-boot, with a shared /home, but it also would be possible to do this without sharing /home. Another possibility is to simply install Xubuntu meta-packages by the already existing Ubuntu install, IOW just to have one Linux install and to chose what session to run, by the display managers' greeter. Usually a user could use one /home for configurations of several windows managers or desktop environments, just sometimes this could cause issues for novices, so it doesn't harm to start by adding an additional user for testing purpose and/or to backup /home, let alone that it is possible to backup a complete Linux install.
Before going into the details of the available choices, the original poster should consider to describe the reason to install Xubuntu and to be able to revert back to Ubuntu, since there's another choice. Just for testing purpose running the already existing Ubuntu install as host for a virtual machine with a Xubuntu guest could be possible, too. This isn't the best approach for all purposes, since a virtual machine has got a few limits. OTOH those limits don't affect all domains. IOW it's also important for what the original poster does use Linux, e.g. office work is something different to real-time tasks such as CNC or pro-audio. Regards, Ralf -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
