[mdlug] REcommendations for Partiton with shared home directory?

[Steve Litt]

Aaron Kulkis said on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:44:31 -0500


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>On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 15:27 Robert James Fulner <fulner at alumni.nmu.edu>
>wrote:
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>> Recently I bought my first new laptop in over a decade, one of the
>> reasons I fell in love with GNU/Linux was the ability to keep old
>> hardware working well past its "expiration date."
>>
>> Anyway one of the things I like best about GNU/Linux is just the fun
>> of playing with different distros. 

>What is your purpose for installing so many different distributions?

[snip the "little variation" discussion]

The OP pretty much answered this question: For the fun of it.

I could add that a second distro, well maintained, means if something
goes wrong on the first distro, you can just boot to the second one and
continue seemlessly, although email storage, retention and availability
might present a challenge.

I have a few different distros I can spin up as VMs, although I don't
think that's what the OP is doing.

To the OP: If you're going to have several distros, make one of them
Void Linux. That really *is* different, and IMHO the best. I'd
recommend making one of them a BSD (OpenBSD is my favorite BSD).

SteveT

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