I’m trying to figure out primary distro for framework 16. Currently using fedora for about year. I’ve package installation automated through ansible so technically using new distro is not big hassle still want to see if there is any other way of easily distro-hoping on bare metal.

I’m long time user of Ubuntu and now pop os so that’s one option and other is bazzite (or similar immutable). I would like to try at least those 2.

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    You can use LiveUSB. If you want to try them with their installation processes, you can try them on VM (e.g. QEMU).

    Using VM may not reflect real hardware, tho. For this, I’d suggest more than one laptop. If you don’t have a spare, some cheap office surplus might help.

    If you want to just use that one laptop, but don’t want to burn out your disk drive when you try out different installations, you can always use external drives.