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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Questions about Linux-Linux dualboot (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by notTheCat@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I've had enough from partitioning my HDD between Linux and Windows, and I want to go full Linux, my laptop is low end and I tend to keep some development services alive when I work on stuff (like MariaDB's) so I decided to split my HDD into three partitions, a distro (Arch) for my dev stuff, a distro (Pop OS) for gaming, and a huge shared home partition, what are the disadvantages of using a shared home (yes with a shared profile, I still want to access my Steam library from Arch if I want that)

Another thing that concerns me is GRUB, usually when I'm dualbooting with Windows, the Linux distro takes care of the grub stuff, should only a single distro take care of GRUB? or I need to install "the grub package" on both? Do both distros need separate boot partitions? Or a single one for a single distro (like a main distro) will suffice?

Another off topic question, my HDD is partitioned to oblivion, can I safely delete ALL partitions? Including the EFI one? I'm not on a MacBook, a typical 2014 Toshiba that's my laptop

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[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why would you want to use Arch for dev work and popos for gaming. Arch is not stable and will cause some issues every now and then and PopOS is worse for gaming, but is far more reliable on a production machine.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use Mint on my gaming PC because I want minimum friction when it's time to game. It should always just work, never boot up and need to roll back the kernel, Mesa version, etc.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get that, but if you want to play with new games, the latest mesa is what you want. sings BTRFS song for rollback

For example even on ArchBTW I had to wait more than a month for a Mesa update to fix Alan Wake 2 for me.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

kisak-mesa PPA takes about 30 seconds to install and runs great.

Or are you saying you want mesa-git?