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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!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure. After you've installed it, add its entry to your bootloader.

There really isn't any technical limit of how many OSes you can install aside from space. Have 500 Alpine installations if you want. All good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

500 Alpine installations? Are you trying to turn their computer into a forest?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't alpine refer to the part of the mountain above the forest, above the limit of tree growth? So maybe they are trying to deforest OP's computer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"500 Alpine installations? Are you trying to turn their computer into a ski resort?"

Better now? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ok thank you 🙂