What are the side effects of installing two different distros on the same computer?

[broken star]

Assume same file format system (ext4), 230gb of storage on the laptop. I’m also assuming that ram is not an issue since I’m not running two distros at the same time.

The laptop has mint XFCE on it now, thinking of putting Fedora GNOME or XFCE on it too as a test for my real next laptop.

[hushed junco]

it's totally fine if u have the space to divide up

it'll maybe take 3 seconds longer to boot cuz of the menu that will show

[broken star]

i get the select your player distro menu all the time so its alright

my other concern was, when making two different partitions, do i make the future other distro partition empty space or do i format it?

[hushed junco]

either way. the installer will format it.

[muted turtle]

I'm triple booting LM, Pop and DraugerOS on my computer no issues as long as the distros will play well sharing grub. Some will mess up grub because they don't expect to have to share.

You might want to check and see if Fedora is one of those.

It looks like you have to install Ubuntu first from a quick search on the web. But it sounds like you already have it installed so it should work.

Ubuntu same as Mint.

[broken star]

im actually already dual booting fedora xfce and mint cinnamon (accidentally) on the old laptop so like thats pog :D

[muted turtle]

I've got four Ubuntu based distros on my daily driver. It's great, just be aware of the idiosyncrasies of some distros. That's actually easy to research, though.

[broken star]

i dont aim on daily driving dual booting

im just dual booting on that laptop because its a laptop that im dedicating to linux experimentation

it has a 200-300 gig sata drive (legit forgor) in it so i can afford to do that

wait shit

its not working

its just booting into mint, not giving me the select your boot screen

[muted turtle]

Boot the mint live USB and run Grub Rescue from it.

[broken star]

i just cleared th e disk and reinstalled cinnamon