Multi-Booting Linux on New Hardware

New Hardware is always a pain (including the money invested) a for hardcore Linux user like me.

So keeping one's old hardware in trim condition, come good in retirement.

1. I always say that Linux always protects hardware that include RAM, Graphic Cards and SSDs.

2. One exception of course is SSDs. I come to that later.

3. Linux use minimum of resources for full functionality and 100 GB is is enough with only  25 (Debian) to 30 GB, in installing (Emmabantus), them.

I am not sure how much for Ubuntu 21.10, probably less GBs.

Ubuntu has not become frugal but it is becoming pragmatic with Debian having an enormous package store to add up.

4. I will not talk about games which is taken care by Valve and Steam hardware.

5. This is about using a Functional Desktop.

6. With cloud functionality in full gear Linux sever can be accommodated by 4M Linux or Tiny Core Linux of about 4 to 8 MBs (note this is in MBs) in a Pendrive or USB stick.

Both of these tiny guys are within  the top 100 in distrowatch's ranking.

7. What I mean is to run, server utilities one need not have a fully fledged distribution.

There are number of server dedicated Linux distribution, I forget their names.
? System Linux is probably one of them.

8. Coming to SSD with 120 GB drive one can run two distributions but only one can be booted.
GRUB does not work on SSDs, no master boot record to configure booting options (only one distribution, alone can be run in a SSD).

There is a way about it
The second one I installed, I boot it from the GRUB written in a USB stick.

Or else, partition the extra GB with a NTFS partition for storing data.

9. So spending huge sum on a SSD is counter productive and waste of money.

10. Buy 1 terabyte external rotating disk and install the other distributions in it.

11. I have old one terabyte internal drive which I have installed four other distributions using GRUB to access them.

12. I think I will incorporate those tricks in a book I am going to write and I will dedicate the book  to both GRUB and Ubuntu.

13. It is tempting to learn about Linux on YouTube but it can be frustrating without a Guru.

14. My Gurus has always being books.

15. Terms like srv, etc, tmp, bin, libs, home, /root, file history and many more jobs like cron jobs can be learnt only in text mode.

16. One has to learn file hierarchy, the desktop is only the window dressing and the real work of Linux is  behind the screen in a text file written in python.

17. There was a fully fledged text editor called LaTex gone into wilderness.

18. I have Endless OS in my Laptop and missing things like AbiWord, Telegram, Tex are there for me to fiddle with.

Endless OS is like an Android on a PC.

19. The Android like Linux distribution failed in it's early days.

20. Cloud Linux also failed but it looks like another one has come into fray of Linux influence.

21. There is no limit to Linux and enjoy it when one is young.

When one is old one settles down to the minimum that gets the work done.

Laziness becomes a habit.

I am in that mode, taking life in a relaxed way.

But Linux keeps me young at heart.

Don't be grumpy, if a Linux utility fails.

Improve it by becoming a critic and later a developer.