u/Poansore

A few years ago I stumbled over a website that tells you how many days old you are. I then marked today's date as when I turn 10000.

Nothing much is happening today. I'm tinkering with my linux computer and chilling with my family. I don't plan on celebrating this that much, a birthday a year is plenty for me lol

Still, it does feel like a significant point in my life. I'm moving to another city soon for a paid internship, my first full-time job.

It's also the first time time I'm gonna live alone in an apartment. I think it'll be strange, but also really nice to have all of that space to myself. I've been living in a college dorm for the past few years, and sharing a kitchen with eight other people has gotten real tiring lately lol

Where were you when you turned 10000? Or what do you want to do to celebrate when you do? I might need some tips lmao

I come to you in the time of my greatest need. I'm very much a noob at linux. I got a Framework 16 laptop recently and decided to install Fedora Workstation on it. It's been a hoot and a half getting Linux to work, I'm oscillating a lot between wanting to tear my hair out, and feeling smart as hell jumping through hoops to get all my programs installed.

At some point though, curiosity and hubris got the better of me.

I wanted to try out Bazzite. Not wanting to lose my files, I created a partition on my ssd and allocated about half my storage to it. I then installed Bazzite on that partition. So far so good. Bazzite is pretty cool, has neat design features and all, but I liked the sleeker design of Fedora Workstation better.

Here's where the problem comes in: I restart the computer, and it boots straight into Bazzite. I restart and button mash F10-F12 and delete (one of them had to work) and get into a safe boot type thing where I see several disks called Fedora and Bazzite, but no matter which one I choose, I always boot back to Bazzite. I still have accces to all my old files, but I'd like to get back to Fedora Workstation. I've done a bunch of googling, but most info on dual booting I've seen is specifically dual booting between Windows and Linux. Sometimes I find something pertaining to this issue, but the solutions are so thick with technical jargon that I can't parse it at all.

What I'm curious about is:

1. Is there a way to get back to Fedora Workstation? (from what I've been able to gather, it could be an issue with one using UEFI and one using GRUB)

2. Could I just delete the partition on which Bazzite is installed, hopefully booting into Fedora Workstation instead?

3. Am I a silly goose who has overlooked a very simple solution to my problem.

If anyone could help me answer any of these question, I would be forever grateful.

Yours truly, a distressed dual booter