I believe in redundancy. I dual boot because if one distro has trouble, I have another to rely on for normal daily work. I dont have the luxury or space to have one machine for each distro.
What you are really suggesting is that I use Gentoo more for daily work. That is possible … I have been intending to installl it in my main machine for some time.
I dont really stress any distro. I use very few packages and by spreading work over multiple distros I keep each of them simple.
I dont see much difference between distros when working. It is setting them up and maintenance that differs.
Same here. Just think when I went to my mom’s and my trusty laptop would not get to the login screen and I did not know how to resolve it until I got back home and you helped me figure it out.
Thankfully, I always have dual boot systems so that I can boot into the other(s) and access my flies and things needed for work.
You mean I have to dual-boot, triple-boot or whatever, just to have a safety net!!! I can run my PC, for years, with just only Windows, and a few backups!!! That is not speaking highly of Linux!!!
If a machine is important for business or critical personal jobs, it is always better to have redundancy in the software. Some do it with backups, like you would do with windows, but it is more convenient to to have either raid or dual boot, in addition to backups.
Nasty hangups only happen infrequently ( in Linux or Win) , but when they do it is usually at an inconvenient time and you want a quick workaround. … followed by a proper fix when time permits.
Backups take much longer to get up and running than just rebooting into a different distro. I had updated and unplugged my HDMI when packing my laptop and for some reason, it would not “display” to the login screen. Fixed it in a few minutes once I returned home and had time after taking care of my mom.
Easy to workaround while I was too busy to troubleshoot. Took 1 min to reboot into Garuda and all my backed up stuff was already there. No need to restore anything.
I really can’t be arsed with the hassle of dual booting…
Before the advent of Steam on Linux (circa 2012) I used to dual boot some Ubuntu version with Windows 7…
Soon as Steam had a native Linux client and some top shelf titles native on Linux (Left 4 Dead and Serious Sam 3) - I wiped my HDD - installed Ubuntu and never dual booted again…
If things go catastrophically bad - I’ll have to re-install - but I don’t lose any data - all my important stuff is in my self-hosted cloud and all my games are available from Steam, and my main music collection and movies is on my NAS on RAIDZ1 (RAID is not backup - I know ).
You may lose some time if there is a lot of reconfiguring to be done. If you dont like dual boot, why not keep an rsync copy of the whole OS… a bit like a hand driven raid. The you can recover rapidly.
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