Macaroni9538 @ Macaroni9538 @lemmy.ml

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Yea I've read Caldigit is the gold standard for docking stations; a bit pricy for me ATM though. I think I shall get a dell dock, which should work good with my dell laptop :) What about cables and adapters and chargers? have any specific favorites for those types of things?

That's an interesting approach, but I don't think I really have any equipment that would need an actual power brick lol who knows? I only have a laptop, cell phone, printer, and a few streaming devices on my network. None are very power intensive really. Unless Im totally misunderstanding your approach?

Gotcha. Never explored Gnome boxes yet; probably just waiting for the right time. I've been trying to learn a whole lot of other tech stuff, so I sorta put virtualization on the back burner for now. Definitely wanna learn about KVM, lxd and lxc and even gnome boxes. just not right now

Perfect! Thanks for this info. Sounds much easier. Is there one particular bootloader you think would be BEST for multibooting different distro types? My guess would be a Debian system first probably? and do you recommend I make separate partitions for everything or just install the other distros into the same partition as the first install?

ummmm I dont really think I can give a good reason lol, just the way I want to do it. I feel if they're physically installed on my system, it would sort of force me to use other options, thus furthering my learning. I feel VMs or more impersonal and temporary. I use Ventoy for live OSs just to get a feel for things, but when it actually comes to daily use, I'd rather have them installed.

Dude please excuse my ignorance, but I would obviously need to make a bootloader partition, but do I have to like download grub software and install it on that partition or is that something the system will do during the partitioning process itself?

I have a Dell laptop, so maybe I should stick with dell devices if I add anything more. Currently searching for a docking station, so Dell is probably my top choice.... Not what about all the cabling?! lol

Oh I wasn't inferring Bedrock was VM, was just saying I dont want to explore the VM route... I tried to before and messed things up lol though I will learn about it down the road! I'll read up on Bedrock though

Never heard of this one. Some more research to do! Thanks for all the info

Ok, so maybe make a separate partition for each distro and a swap for each distro too? I'm also confused about the bootloader part too. I've never manually partitioned for a distro before, just always did the auto/recommended route.

Wow that is amazing, thanks for sharing.

I have HEARD of Bedrock but never really read about it. I will give it a check out now. Not too interested in VM's ATM

Thanks. I do not want to mess around with virtualization; I went down that rabbithole before and got lost and broke stuff lol. I need to do a bit more research and learning before im more confident with virtualization. So how large should the swap be? and what about a bootloader?? Are all three compatible with grub? also how large should the bootloader partition be? thanks, this is all a bit foreign to me.

Same, I am also a Linux user. What are your favorite brands?

Another great answer. You are super knowledgeable and helpful. I've experimented with everything but am only comfortable with debian/Ubuntu based. Fedora was fairly easy, but still tricky to pick up on some things, didn't give it a longer chance.

Also same for opensuse tumbleweed, I liked it and I was getting around OK, but I felt it was maybe fragile or their security(?) Settings are too tight because it seemed like I kept breaking crap on accident lol. Would definitely be willing to give it another shot.

Now Arch.... This ones so different. I used manjaro when it first released and I liked it and surprisingly picked up on using it kinda quick, but again, I eventually accidentally broke it and couldn't figure out how to fix it due to limited knowledge. But arch distros seem to differ so vastly; its sort of an overwhelming world. Now just pure arch, yea I dont think I could figure that one out, unless its a little more user friendly these days... So thats about that then pretty much. All the main distros in my nutshell, not including forks or spinoffs or flavors or whatever..... Yet alone DEs lol. I get bored easily with just all the same out of box distros so I tend to explore but yet there's so much I dont know about what actually does into a distro and desktop and everything else

Thank you, I never quite knew the differences between enterprise oriented distros and just regular workstation or personal use distros

Awesome info man, thanks

Great answer! I've only ever really delved into the debian and Ubuntu universes. I tinkered around with some arch, fedora, opensuse, etc. But since I started out on mint, its what I'm use to and comfortable with. BUT I need to venture out of my bubble I think... Would live a firmer grasp on other linux distros

Gotcha, I knew they were more enterprise oriented but wondering if there's any benefit of using an enterprise oriented distro just as an individual lol its foreign to me

Man my actual technical expertise is sorta limited, so it could have been user error too. I try to follow guides or tutorials, other times if it seems simple enough, I wing it lol