Howto share NetBeans profile across 3 computers and 4 separate OS's (Windows and Linux)?

I use 3 different computers and 4 separate OS's (Windows and Linux) and want to take the pain out of making sure plugins are installed correctly, formatting settings are the same, other settings are the same, etc. I don't want to copy them.

Sharing across multiple windows installations is easy, I just need to set the --userdir switch to the location. However one of the OS's is Ubuntu linux, and from this post, it looks like its not going to work.

I heavily use both Windows and Linux for development, so this is an issue. What can I do to make the profile cross compatible? Bet开发者_Python百科ter yet, is there a plugin that does this automatically?

I have been doing this for quite some time now. Basically here's how I did it

• I have a .netbeans folder on my portable hard drive which contains the profile
• Each machine has their own netbeans installation due to performance issues. All I do is modify the etc/netbeans.conf configuration file and set it to the path thats for that machine (remember that the drive mounts on different letters and locations)