HP Envy 17 laptop -3 installations on the internal drive :
1. Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty (my most used install) with 11 available sessions to boot into (8 significantly different DEs) eg....
Code:
yetiman:~ $ echo ""; echo $(ls /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//')
cairo-dock gnome-classic gnome i3 i3-with-shmlog mate openbox ubuntu ubuntustudio xfce xubuntu
Currently posting this from the i3 session (not a desktop environment as such, just an X window manager)
2. Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and
3. Debian 9 Stretch
With room spare for two more installations on the internal drive ...
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Also for plugging into the laptop via USB, I have 1 headless installation of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty (purely CLI only) on an external drive for use in data recovery and for booting various iso tool disks and OSes from the hdd of the external drive utilizing its grub bootloader. I can also access and play the main internal hdd media storage files from the external drive when booted into it. Both music and video files can be played as pulseadio is installed and the linux framebuffer is enabled allowing normal videos and dvds from iso files to be played in the CLI environment. Image files can be viewed on the CLI with the framebuffer device and the application "fbi" installed. The hardest task was writing the scripting to play the iso video files with mplayer on the CLI .
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Finally I have a desktop tower with 1 install of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty which admittedly has not been updated or used for many months as the tower needs some hardware repairs/troubleshooting done on it.
So in total I have 5 linux installations of which I would count 4 as "in use" and regularly updated. Cheers, yeti.
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