Im on a Dell G5 15 laptop with a 1660ti. I set my built in monitor to 125%, and that looks fine, but for some reason my second monitor seems to be zoomed in a bunch, even though that is still at 100% I kinda need my laptop screen zoomed in since its so small, any advice? Pop!_OS LTS, dont remember version, but says “most recent”
so like keep the pop parts, and then make more for other distros? id like to keep pop while experimenting with others
Imagine you have a 500Gb SSD.
If you allocate 100GB to Windows, 200GB to Pop and 200 GB to Fedora (or another distro) you will still be able to boot on pop and retain those documents while having an entirely different OS (fedora) from which you can boot with its own files and config which won’t impact your Pop.
If you’re more tech savvy you can even create a share partition on which you can store files that are easily transferrable between these 3 OS.
yeah i was thinking to make just a new boot and root part for fedora, and somehow tell it to use pop’s home as its own
That would be a terrible idea, if you use the same username.
Since each distro uses your home folder to store their configuration files, there would be a conflict and neither would function correctly.
A solution would be to have your pop OS to have a user1 and your Fedora to have a user2. i.e. John for Pop and Jack for Fedora.
But ultimately, what I would recommend would be the following :
When you install fedora, you don’t have to use a different partition for home. It only has to use a single partition for everything. (iirc, fedora uses a filesystem called btrfs which is very practical for these cases)
Let’s say your partition will look something like this
And if you want a shared space between all the OS you would then have another partition
Until Windows makes an update and breaks every one of those two others. No.
Windows is very territorial and often breaks the bootloader. The best way would be to install one distro at one drive, but if that’s impossible right now, dual booting should be alright. Just be aware of the warning.