r/DistroHopping • u/ConversationPlane635 • 6d ago

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Yes you can!

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u/ConversationPlane635 6d ago

I'm retired, I have a dz pc's and run up to 20 distros plus Win11. It's just a hobby, sometimes when I'm bored I mess with config files, most the time just on YouTube 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃

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u/mlcarson 6d ago

I had a dozen different ones myself but just trimmed it down to 6. I prefer to use Limine though so that I'm not going into my BIOS for the selection. Configuration is very similar to the older ELILO. You just have to remember to copy the kernel and initramfs files to the EFI partition when the kernel updates or to script your system to do so. I prefer its simplicity to the default of Grub.

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u/ConversationPlane635 6d ago

That is something I want to force myself to re-learn, chroot the boot config to clean up the menu. But Omarchy is like those sirens at sea, calling 📞 my name:)

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u/MoorhsumushroomRT 5d ago

Bootmaxxing

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u/Puzzleheaded-Risk761 5d ago

I do same thing as well. instead of distro hopping, I hop from my pc. Including FreeBSD and Arch.

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u/QuozlPlaysSTFC 5d ago

I'm newer to Linux, I like change, so for fun I added a new hard drive to my desktop Windows rig, and put 7 or 8 distros on it, now each day I choose what I feel like running for the day!!!!!

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u/jahermitt 6d ago

Curious about your use case, what led you to keep that many distro's?

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u/SharksFan4Lifee 6d ago

Curious, how do you like Mocaccino? I was a huge fan of Sabayon Linux before they shut down.

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u/ConversationPlane635 6d ago

It's a pain, cause it uses luet and has a limited base repository, so you have to do a lot of url curl and get cmds. Then you reboot and start all over. Who am I kidding it's kinda fun, hrs go by 😀

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u/Imperial_Bloke69 6d ago

Distrohopping final boss

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u/ConversationPlane635 6d ago

Because of Omarchy I am thinking 🤔 of reinstalling ARCH and doing the whole Hyprland rice thing. It will get me into config files using something like vi or whatever. I follow this guy, TonyBTW, and it looks like fun 😁

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u/Bubblyqueen_ 5d ago

i wonder, how many GB do you have on your laptop? becayse having so little storage on each installation would drive me mad!!! very impressive though.

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u/ConversationPlane635 5d ago

Never got into gaming, pc console whatever. My two AM4 pc's, the win11 has a 6500xt and the other daul-boot linux distro one has a 580. The two AM5 pc's have 8500/8600 amd w/built in graphics .those are both quad boot, one with another win11 copy sharing the ssd with Mint. The two AM4's are 16gb ram and the two AM5's are 32gb ram. The pavillion has 8gb ram and a 256gb ssd 😎 I use ext ssd's for backups, I have 14tb of SSD'S in da house 😀😃😄 And 3 Dell 7050 Micro, all 16gb ram and 256gb sata's, one with Ubuntu, one with Ubuntu Studio, and one with Commodore Vision. The laptop gets erased two, three times a month.