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

submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop?

Sure. Don't.

Just use VMs instead. Partitioning your hard drive to boot multiple operating systems from is asking for trouble if you don't know what you're doing.

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Thanks, though it's actually that tricky? I honestly figured it would be more simple, but hey I guess not. Ehh I just don't want to get into VM quite yet; I've got alot of other learning to do first. But people dual boot windows and linux all the time with no problems, what is so different about dual booting or in my case triple booting three linux distros?

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VMs are so much easier and more fun than dual booting. The best part about VMs is you can use both at once and they're the same system. Dual booting forces the OS's apart, and it's difficult to set up.

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have a recommended virtualization platform for such a project like this?

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