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A Few Questions - New Install, which Flavor/Architecture?

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http://crunchbang.org – everything is fine now, also the screen-changing worked.i installed both 32 and 64 bit waldorf and made sure the same uuid partition gets mounted as /home in both.so i guess it works, both installations are sharing the same home folder.just came back to ask if somebody more enlightened than me would advise against sth like this? or point out difficulties?happy to take advice. thanks. (HowTos)

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