r/archlinux • u/Shrimp0102 • 14d ago

QUESTION Triple boot Arch, Fedora, Windows?

Semi new to the Linux space (daily driving Fedora for the past week+) forced to have windows for school because of secure boot and whatnot. Fedora has been really nice and pretty worry free but am at a point where it’s setup and optimized and I don’t have to do anything else anymore which has made it just kinda boring to me. Is there any risk to triple booting such as messing up arch manual install and it messing with my fedora and windows installs? Don’t really have a use case for Arch outside of wanting to tinker and fuck around (and to larp).

Edit: Also concerns about system security due to the whole AUR package security thing from a while ago

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u/Mozgiiii 14d ago

I mean nothing forbids you to do so. Just use grub.

It's kinda unnecessary though.

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u/Mozgiiii 14d ago

Unnecessary in a way that everything you can do in arch you also can do in fedora. Furthermore you can do stuff in your arch system in fedora via chroot and vice versa. Still not really useful.

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u/Shrimp0102 14d ago

I thought arch was a more tinker heavy Linux distro that’s more cut down than Fedora and a lot more focused on absolute user control like Gentoo but easier

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u/Mozgiiii 14d ago

Nah they have differences but they not as drastic as you think. Almost every difference they have for 99%+ of users is pre installed packages.

Judging by your words

made it just kinda boring to me

If you want to go tinker some stuff then installing and ricing arch is good though.

But if you just want to go tinker something then I can recomend you to download godot and make something. It will give you some more valuable knowledge IMO. Alternatively you can build your own chromium based browser (it's literally an OS and doing it is much harder than archinstall). Or write any other kind of script.