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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