im currently dual booting endevouros with windows, and i have a lot of free/unpartitioned space on my drive. can i install another linux distro alongside endevour and windows? i have a separate home partition as well. do i only keep one linux/grub boot partition? im not too scared of nuking everything but id obv rather not. thanks!
My usual setup is two distros, sometimes also Windows. I use one home partition, one swap partition, one EFI partition (Windows creates one in EFI mode) and each OS its own root partition.
Some people won’t recommend sharing a home partition, but it has worked for me for a long time now. Some years ago I’d have an additional data partition, with symlinks from each home folder of each distro for Videos, Documents, Images, etc. Each distro was contained, even home, in the root partition.
Also, you can have several bootloaders in the EFI partition as long as you don’t wipe/format it. Usually, you can choose which one to use in the firmware settings.
whats the advantage of multiple root partitions?
Multiple distros, of course. You really must not share a root partition between distros. Wouldn’t even know where one starts our the others end.
sorry i mixed up root and boot 😅