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True story: I did get up to 11 distros recently in a multiboot setup on my Thinkpad. I used Refind for the boot manager and everything worked well.
I had:
1 - Fedora
2 - Alma Linux
3 - Anti-X
4 - Slackware
5 - ElementaryOS
6 - Linux Mint
7 - Mageia
8 - EndeavourOS
9 - PopOS
10 - Lubuntu
11 - openSUSE
I'll probably make another run at it and try to get up to 20. I need to lay out the partitions better. I definitely need to add Void and Alpine to the list.
touch grass
touch: cannot touch `grass': Permission denied
sudo touch grass
Sourse is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass
Error: I'm afraid I cannot let you do that, Dave.
Command 'sudo' not found.
su -
touch grass
Command 'su' not found did you mean: command 'doas' from opendoas
run0 touch grass
echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass
Got 'em!
but in which distro should you run this?
any loosely posix-following os will work with this.
EDIT: joke went over my head
shared home partition
I'm not hearing a "no"
I agree with the ball, it would be easier and more convenient to use virtualization, containers or something similar.
"I don't do it because it's easy, I do it because I thought it would be easy."
-OP maybe
I use Linux because it gets out of my way and lets me get things done.
To you Linux seems to be the thing that needs to get done...?
Sure! What the hell, throw a couple of BSDs in there too, why not?
Sure! What the hell, throw a couple of BSDs in there too, why not?
yeah, I was thinking about that too. And OpenIndiana as well.
Yes! I missed the heyday of Solaris, so I've been sorely tempted to try out OpenIndiana.
Degenerate fucking distro hoppers, why can’t you settle down with TempleOS like a good fucking Christian?
One question: Why?
I've never actually tried it, but I think you could use BTRFS subvolumes to multiboot without partitioning the physical space.
And then maybe even use deduplication across subvolumes?
That was the exact thing I was going to suggest. It does work!
If I don't have 1tb of wiggle room the system is entirely useless to me
Seek help
/help
--help, found the Windows guy.
Just use a virtual machine
Did you ever try to boot one of your other partitions using KVM ?
Did you ever try to boot one of your other partitions using KVM ?
No, I never tried that before.
So, you mean like if I am booted up into Fedora on /dev/sda2
then I use KVM to boot up Slackware installed on /dev/sda6 for example?
Nope, never tried that.
Ooh, I'm just learning about systemd-nspawn, now I want to try it.
22, 1 for /home and 1 /home for that one odd distro that does things vastly different.
Whole disk LVM2 logical volume with a thin pool. Now you can have as many "partitions" as you like. Enable vdo deduplication and save even more space.
200 gigabytes per distro?
if you're just trying them out, there is virtualbox...
For the little distro hopper in your family!
No Arch btw?
20-disk RAID5 it is then.
Why would one need anything other than Slackware?
Yes.
I just use qubesos so I don't have to think about it, and I can run whatever distro I want.
Edit: spelling
dewit
I forgot about this comic.