I would love to install all three aforementioned OSes for (not so) obvious reasons.
1. Windows 7 for Visual Studio (C# + .NET); one day maybe Photoshop
2. Manjaro for every other dev project
3. Ubuntu for leisure like movies or reddit browsing
I know it may sound weird, but i need separate environments for relax and work. I have overwhelming difficulties with focusing on tasks.
I don't need Ubuntu to be SSD-ish fast. It'd be nice if it only booted rapidly. I'd also like to designate ~8GB of RAM for swap partition on both GNU/Linuxes.
I already have pen drives with Ubuntu 16.04 Unity and Manjaro 16.08 KDE prepared, as well as working Windows 7 CD with key.
Now I have few questions for you:
1) How should I divide space on both physical disks to use their capabilities according to my needs? How much space for both /s, /homes? Can Manjaro and Ubuntu share /boot and swap?
2) What is the best order I should take to have the least complications possible?
3) Where to install bootloader and from which installation disk?
If you could add little technical explanation regarding questions 2 and 3 I would greatly appreciate it. I'd love to enrich my "Linux systems" knowledge and still don't quite understand boot process and why it's so difficult to have few OSes bootable at the same time. Additionally, if you could recommend me BIOS alternative for rEFIned, I'd love to use it to improve booting visual experience :)
Thanks in advance!
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I suggest that you might want to look into Type 1 Hypervisors if you want speed (aka Bare Metal Hypervisors) [I personally have not used this]
If you want to give up a bit of speed and go for convenience then look to Type 2 Hypervisors (aka Virtual Machines). This is great especially if you need two of them to run at the same time. You can make use of Shared Folders to transfer files.
Read more here: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/Virtualization-hypervisor-comparison-Type-1-vs-Type-2-hypervisors
Edit: I might not have fully answered your question but I personally am not a big fan of dual booting.
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