Im currently running a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11 (recently switched from Windows 10).
Long term, I want to move fully to Linux, but heres the catch Im considering running a Linux–Linux dual boot instead basically using Mint alongside something like Fedora. The main purpose of this machine is gaming.
So far, Ive tested around 40 games on Mint. About 37 worked basically out of the box. For two of them, a friend helped me get things running, and the last one only worked after I swtiched to older NVIDIA drivers. Overall pretty happy with the results
Im also planning to move to an AMD GPU in the future, since Ive heard they tend to be less hassle on Linux than NVIDIA cards.
My plan is to give each Linux distro its own 1-terabyte SSD. So the question is: is this overall a bad idea? I like Mint,but I also want to try out other distros for a longer time period, and I really like the flexibility that dual booting gives me.
Would Mint and Fedora be a good pairing for mostly gaming and a bit of browsing, or would you recommend something other than Fedora? Its going good so far on Mint. One of the reasons why Im considering a Linux dualboot is cause I could run Mint with older drivers and Fedora with cutting edge drivers and that way hopefully max performance in my gaming. (That was at least my idea as a novice)
Lets have a bit of a discussion. All and any input is welcome. Yes I was the person that asked about dualbooting windows and linux in the past
I have never once before heard of someone dual-botting two different Linux distros. IMO this seems very inefficient. Personally I would just pick and stick with one.
I have enough space and I dont mind the lack of efficiency. I just wanna give each distro a deep enough test (like some weeks/months) before I settle for something longterm
Space isn’t even an issue when dualbooting Linux systems. You can mount the root system on a separate partition and have one big shared /home partition. The system root partition usually only takes like 10-20gb at most.