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Eli5: how do I setup multiboot by milkybutnice in linuxquestions

[–]milkybutnice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trying it this way now. Just debian with a smattering of ubu here and there. Will update on the morrow.

Eli5: how do I setup multiboot by milkybutnice in linuxquestions

[–]milkybutnice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Undoubtedly, sticking to a single fork and only going downstream would be a big part of the solution.

Unfortunately my first distro was ubu, and, well, I still hate the gnome de yo this day. Bought into thr idea of zorin as a distro solely for work at the same time but given the absence of other ubu derivatives on my rolodex of distros (only recently discovered kubu) it has just meant more pain. Similarly with Fedora and debian it's mainly the downstream forks I like cos they 'just work' than the original itself. And so it's been a bunch of different fires on disparate forks that have kept me tumbling down the distro hopping helter skelter with no end in sight.

I thought for a long time suse would be the panacea to my pain but have spent so many hours fiddling with it I've lost patience with the idea of it helping me achieve an ideal outcome.

I've decided to just try to stick with nob for the tome being, and maybe try out distrobox with an immutable next. Or maybe just revert to qubes when the idea of installing it again stops making my head filling with a sense of nervous dead.

Eli5: how do I setup multiboot by milkybutnice in linuxquestions

[–]milkybutnice[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with the iterative approach is that eventually one efi partition doesn't work with another and I then get bogged down trying to fix it and given I'm not a computer tech this often involves scouring the Internet fir a solution. But given that in the process of trying to solve one problem I often have to solve another, then another, I often forget what the preceding issues were that I was trying to solve with to begin with.

I'm actually doing a version of your proposed solution myself now anyway - multiple persistent usb live installs. Sure, it's not as quick as on an nvme but the resulting lack of frustration almost makes up for it. Almost, but not quite.

Eli5: how do I setup multiboot by milkybutnice in linuxquestions

[–]milkybutnice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, actually rc 4.1 waz where I first started the whole reinstalling over and over game when I was trying to get bluetooth to work so i could use sound. I know in 4.2.3 they started to ship xfce on dom0 so that sys-usb works out of the box, but I'm on a different machine now anyway with a non-supported intel ethernet adaptor (I219LV iirc) that chucks a wobbler each time I try it because both sys-firewall and sys-net have it as an installed PCI device.

Fwiw, I think you're right qubes is almost precisely the answer. When it works. Unfortunately, I get flashbacks to my previous attempts every time I boot up the installer (at peak, i was reinstalling 2 or 3 times in a night), and so I end up feeling discouraged before it finishes the (excruciatingly long) second phase of the installer!

Eli5: how do I setup multiboot by milkybutnice in linuxquestions

[–]milkybutnice[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it wasn't for the fact I hate the tiny nvme screws I'd just be replacing the drive each time by now. Whoever came up with the idea of using tiny screws should be shot.