Multi-booting with different Linux Distros

Without repeating what I said here

this video says “some Distros use the same ID which the branch from where they generated uses, so it will make problems.


My plan is to have a PC with Fedora KDE and Bazzite.
Would these two have any problem of any kind?

You won’t know for sure until you do the install.
For me, every time I install a new fedora release it generates a new machine ID. An upgrade retains the old machine ID.

I didn’t give it the right name “for the sake of just sending the message”, since the correct info was in the video,
but you didn’t even bother checking the info, and instead just said the first thing which came to mind.

Sorry you are offended by my answer.
This is the second time you have seemed offended by a very sensible answer.
My answers are intended to make the user think and learn for themselves and not spoon feed solutions. As the adage goes, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

You cannot know the answer to your question until you actually try using two different distros and installing them since as you stated the video says:

Since that video is not your specific pair of distros and the term you quoted is very generic, your question

cannot be answered either yes or no unless someone happens to actually install both those distros and has experience with what you are asking.

I am sorry if you are offended but relying on someone’s you tube video to provide guidance may or may not be worthwhile. A lot are not specific enough to really assist and as it seems many raise questions that are not easily answered.

My suggestion to avoid these kind of unanswerable questions is to try things for yourself then ask questions when there is a problem instead of asking what if? questions.

In general, and as you would find with searching here, when installing 2 different linux distros it is almost 100% required to use 2 different efi partitions, one for each distro, then use the grub in only one of those distros to manage the booting. Dual booting 2 different fedora versions makes the separate efi partitions mandatory

I can also say that it has been expressed several times that dual booting an atomic version and an rpm version of fedora is problematic at best.

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I am not offended.

On the other hand some go tell others that I “offended them” when no such thing happened.
To say “you are wrong” when one is, or “this doesn’t help” when it really doesn’t, or " please stop repeating yourself, I get it" when the person starts sounding like a broken disk is not an insult, it’s normal communication.


This has the same weight of “me too // I have the same problem” without adding anything else.

And with due respect, you can NOT and MUST NOT play the “catch the ball” game with people coming in forums FOR ANSWERS, be them the ones asking or the ones 8 years later who want a clear and concise answer to problems.
If you know the answer first you give it, and then you explain the how-s and why-s.


I am not offended because you didn’t insult me.
I am irritated because you didn’t “read” and still commented.
It also seems that you talk a lot, but say very little.

Wrong? Yes, wrong.

This video in particular is very helpful for the milti-booting question.

I didn’t know before (I watched it months ago), so if I went in confidently thinking “things will just work because a human created this” (foolish thought, people like to make User Experiences Hell on Earth for no reason!) I would have had a bad time in the little free time when I can work on my hobbies.

If you were to imagine two people, one who decided to install 2 different Distros from the beginning, and the other who uses its computer for a year before deciding such, you will have two different problems with different weights (if a problem arises):

  • The first person will at worse abandon the idea and use two different machines.
  • The second person could find itself unable to use its machine in a timely matter if they are busy, and at worse they could just come to corrupt the first Distro’s data. This would at least bring great stress to anyone.
  1. They are answerable.
  2. [The person who asks] may lack the time, the materials or the knowledge to do X, so before wasting days, weeks or months doing stupid things anyone knows that asking around is the smart move, even if one wants to do something never done before. “We stand on the shoulders of giants.”
  3. “ask questions when there is a problem instead of asking what if? questions.” makes absolutely NO sense, because (other than the fact that the base question was already well-formulated) to focus the question with an hypothetical makes it easier to answer.

And here’s something of value.

And here’s something else.
Altho I have no idea who, where and when it’s said.

Try a simple search here for something like dual boot atomic and it returns many references.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof

That action to take is not mine.
You cited something, so you are the one who must link a source.

It’s crazy that if I dare defend myself too much I get punished.

That said, no. Stop. Cease.
You are pretending Jeff_V didn’t even make any mistake at all, when the first thing he said was, and I quote:
“Just try it yourself.
Btw I didn’t read[1] so here’s a quick assumption.”

Then when I neutrally said

THE answer was

followed by what then can be read above here.



Can we just cut this out?
Can Jeff just say “yeah, I didn’t read” without feeling attacked, thus attacking an innocent man?
Can you not “defend” Jeff?

Could we leave this human mess out of the “does Bazzite + Fedora in the same PC give problems” discussion?


  1. There’s the video for info too, I didn’t re-write down what I already wrote and I didn’t bother writing down what Video Guy said himself. ↩︎

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