Macaroni9538

perhaps I will take a gander if I can't figure it out manually.

That's my bad, I tend to kinda lump cloud, VMs, and containers together and sometimes use catchall phrases. I know they're all different and I should clarify.

I have heard alot of really good things about Mikrotik. I haven't explored them as I haven't had many networking needs, but maybe I'll take a look at their offerings. Thanks

well damn lol.... this is deflating. I honestly would rather avoid VMs for now. trying to focus more on the meat and potatoes of Linux and other topics. I took a deep dive down virtualization and I got lost quickly and broke some stuff haha not really sure if now is the time for me to learn it. I've sorta put it on the backburner for now. So no easier, alternatives? You think manually doing this is not a good idea?

I mean USB cables differ greatly though, based upon what your requirements are

I mean SHOULD I make an efi partition? I have no clue if I need it or if it's optional. Simple is better in my case lol. SOO just trying to put it all together so far. first create a roughly 8gb fat32 partition for swap? Then a 60gb ext4 partition for distro 1, then so on with the other two partitions and thats it? how does the storage partition work? what format should that be? and I was reading about mount points and stuff, what ought I know about those?

Thanks for the info. Since im an explorer and learner and want to try new things, I figure I ought to step out of my debian/ubuntu bubble and start to familiarize myself with Arch and Fedora (or RHEL I guess?). but I just personally want then physically installed instead of some image in the cloud, ya know? It's just actually implementing this plan is a tad confusing for me.

Oh I just watched a video about home. So is that a partition of it's own? the guy was saying he was using different homes for each distro and it became a mess, so he planned to install one home directory for all distros.... idk?

Ok so then in this case, create one swap approximately the size of my RAM as I guess the first partition? and then each partition beyond would be just for the distros? i've scene diagrams of efi and bios partitions in the front too, what about those?

Awesome, good to hear. Another brand I've heard mentioned before as a good one too. There's so much junk on Amazon, it can be sorta hard wading through all the crap to find the good ones lol