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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.

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[-] amon@lemmy.world 119 points 4 days ago

touch grass

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 83 points 4 days ago

touch: cannot touch `grass': Permission denied

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 4 days ago

sudo touch grass

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 4 days ago

Sourse is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 4 days ago

echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

Error: I'm afraid I cannot let you do that, Dave.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 24 points 4 days ago

Command 'sudo' not found.

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago

su -
touch grass

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Command 'su' not found did you mean: command 'doas' from opendoas

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 days ago

run0 touch grass

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago

echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Got 'em!

[-] polite_cat@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

but in which distro should you run this?

[-] amon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

any loosely posix-following os will work with this.

EDIT: joke went over my head

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago

shared home partition

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

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...?

[-] don@lemm.ee 27 points 4 days ago

Degenerate fucking distro hoppers, why can’t you settle down with TempleOS like a good fucking Christian?

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

here, you dropped something: /s

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago

I'm not hearing a "no"

[-] Spider89@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Thank you, finally!!

goes down to 19 partitions

[-] Spider89@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No?

Debian Testing/Sid.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah?

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

One question: Why?

[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 days ago

I agree with the ball, it would be easier and more convenient to use virtualization, containers or something similar.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 39 points 4 days ago

"I don't do it because it's easy, I do it because I thought it would be easy."

-OP maybe

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 days ago

Sure! What the hell, throw a couple of BSDs in there too, why not?

[-] neevadu@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 days ago

Yes! I missed the heyday of Solaris, so I've been sorely tempted to try out OpenIndiana.

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

If I don't have 1tb of wiggle room the system is entirely useless to me

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Just use a virtual machine

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago

Seek help

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

/help

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

--help, found the Windows guy.

[-] hersh@literature.cafe 18 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 11 points 4 days ago

That was the exact thing I was going to suggest. It does work!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

22, 1 for /home and 1 /home for that one odd distro that does things vastly different.

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago

if you're just trying them out, there is virtualbox...

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

She's hella cute ☺️

also you forgot Debian

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

and bazzite or other atomic fedoodoo

[-] istdaslol@feddit.org 11 points 4 days ago

Did you ever try to boot one of your other partitions using KVM ?

[-] neevadu@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Ooh, I'm just learning about systemd-nspawn, now I want to try it.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago

200 gigabytes per distro?

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

For the little distro hopper in your family!

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

20-disk RAID5 it is then.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Why would one need anything other than Slackware?

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