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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No I did not recommend Fedora (with GNOME) but to try something like Silverblue (GNOME) or Kinoite (KDE).
Seperate user profiles would make sense if only user changes would be a problem, but installing the distro packages will already create configs, change default apps and more nasty stuff.
The only (rather complicated) way to test multiple desktops easily is doing a full /home backup and rebasing between Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite for example.
But if your GPU doesnt suck like my AMD Vega one and actually supports virtualization, using VMs is really the best way to test different Desktops. You will only want to use one.