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Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don't know where to start. So what I'm looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don't think space is an issue. I have like a 500+ something GB ssd and the few things that I do need to store are in a cloud. I pretty much use my laptop for browsing, researching, maybe streaming videos, and hopefully more programming and tinkering as I learn more; that's about all... no gaming or no data hoarding.

Do I basically just start off installing one distro on the full hard drive and then when I go to install the others, just choose the "run alongside" option? or would I have to manually partition things out? Any thing to worry about with conflicts between different types of distros, etc.? hoping you kind folks can offer me some simple advice on how to go about this without messing up my system. It SEEMS simple enough and it might be so, but I just don't personally know how to go about it lol. Thanks alot!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Question: What do you actually want to achieve?

Do you want a rolling, semi-rolling or stable releases? More tested or even LTS packages, or the latest?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uhmmm so it would be interesting to learn about rolling releases and thats where my choice of manjaro could fit in. Sometimes I simply get bored of debian/Ubuntu but its what I'm most familiar with. The goal is to learn and USE other distros. Not just browse or hop around but I want to use the three main distro types all on one system. I want things to remain in tact like a normal workstation installed on your desktop. Idk much about virtualization, but I'm under the impression that they wipe your disk or a certain distro clean after each use. I do NOT want that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went a huge journey.

mint, crashed
manjaro, weird reputation but very nice
mxlinux: damn old packages back then
kubuntu: broke
kde neon: lol also broke
fedora kde: broke
fedora kinoite: have it the longest, didnt break yet

I like immutable as you can reset your system. You can see most of your deviation from "what works" using rpm-ostree status.

And sorry but its all Linux, it doesnt work differently if you are not a server admin or tweaking SELinux, custom polkit rules and stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. The time I was using Manjaro, I liked it alot but am also confused by the weird negative reputation...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean they are based on Arch and their "stable" is simply that they wait to ship packages. I dont think this is the best way, unsure if they also handle bugfixes like that.

So its basically preconfigured Arch with a weird repo. If you want the AUR, it is said to break on Manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I run Debian with a bunch of virtual machines for exploring other distros. This might not be a good solution for a laptop though.