boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE
My experiences - George.
On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote:
> > An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian Mate, Debian XFCE.
>
> What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop
> environment to the same Debian installation?
Grub did not find other existing Linux distributions. Found Windows, but not other linux distributions.
I did not try hard to determine the reason. I decided if it did not work, don't pursue the issue.
> Display managers allow to
> select session type before login (but some can not remember per-user
> preferences).
Using a different display manager is not the same as using a different installation.
>
> I do not expect serious issues with multiple Linux flavors. Perhaps
> installer should be switched to expert mode to adjust some defaults.
I do use expert mode when installing Debian.
>
> If you still prefer to have independent Debian installations then in the
> case of UEFI and shim-signed+grub-efi-amd64 (for Secure Boot) on the
> same ESP partition see
> <[🔎] vc31n1$ahn$1@ciao.gmane.io">https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[🔎] vc31n1$ahn$1@ciao.gmane.io>
> [SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot. Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:59:29 +0700
When ever possible, I do not use Secure Boot. Though in my attempt to have multiple Linux installations, I did try (once).
>
> You need grub 2.12 from bookworm-backports and custom GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR
> in /etc/default/grub.
>
> Despite in that thread I was trying to concentrate on selecting OS from
> UEFI firmware menu, Felix Miata repeatedly insisted on using grub menu
> for this purpose. In your case grub menu may be easier to maintain.
> Perhaps Felix may provide more details now to do it conveniently.
>
>
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