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Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems?
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Wait, you're swapping hardware to switch to a different OS? Why? Just make a dual boot system
You say "dual". Whereas I'm thinking more like.........20-30 different OS's. Maybe 50. Could eventually be 100. This may eventually sprawl across multiple PC's. I'm very early in my days of mad scientist swapping. I just made Linux Mint yesterday, and tonight I'm going to try all these:
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-alternative-operating-systems
Except for the ones that cost money. Plus, I like the idea of inserting cartridges like an old school NES. It's just satisfying.
That sounds like a nightmare to manage and keep up to date. I would consider using VMs or some other method instead of trying to multiboot dozens of OSes across different physical drives and devices.
Dual boot is a misnomer, you can put as many OSes on a disk as you like
https://www.howtogeek.com/187789/dual-booting-explained-how-you-can-have-multiple-operating-systems-on-your-computer/
And like your link says, you could even run them in virtual machines