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Dual-booting as an intermediate phase for fully switching OSs
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I can recommend Btrfs for testing distros on bare metal. You can install them onto subvolumes without needing to change the physical partition layout, then once happy with one delete all the other subvolumes to reclaim your space. Only downside is not all distros' installers support them natively so it needs some manual work occasionally.
If I understood correctly. Btrfs is a file system? So I'd need to re-install my distro using Btrfs? Let's say I do that, I reinstall Zorin on Btrfs, and then I want to also install Silverblue. Would I be able to then remove Zorin and keep only Silverblue?