I never had dualboot, even when I started with Linux. Windows down, Ubuntu on it. And now I only use EOS, but I still have Manjaro on a stick for emergencies. Finally decided to use Xfce, but that’s not set in stone. When Plasma 6.1 is out, I will try it again.
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Windows on a old hdd, dual booted Arch and EnOs on another hdd.
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I have a CentOS distro running on one of my laptops and 1 server. Windows when I have to and EOS of course. You don’t have CentOS, OpenSUSE or RHEL choices.
Ialso run many OSs in Virtual mode, it has become a hobby 
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Since one of those is a zfs member you could have any number of distros in there. 
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Certainly, although they are only dedicated or complete:
sda → FreeBSD
sdb → EndeavourOS
sdc → nomadBSD
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I use a combination of distros, in different situations.
Main workstation - My main workstation quad boots Arch, Fedora, Manjaro and NixOS out of a single zfs pool. Arch and Fedora are configured in such a way that I can seamlessly boot between them with little difference. The Manjaro install is currently a little stale and the NixOS install is mostly unconfigured. I primarily use the Arch install.
Main laptop - My primary laptop is running EndeavourOS. 
Long term test laptop - My long term test laptop is currently running Fedora but since I just did an extended test of Fedora on my main workstation, it will get replaced with something else when I come across something worthy of a long term test. Before Fedora I used it to test Solus, NixOS and Void most recently.
Servers - Most of my servers run NixOS. The repeatability of the declarative config and the automatic updates make maintenance close to nothing once they are setup.
Desktop VMs - I keep ~75 VMs of varying Linux distros for testing purposes as well.
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From bottom to top:
In my case I don’t use servers, I just use BSD as a desktop, and I don’t use the ports either, I just do everything I need with pkg.
I have seen your post regarding Fedora and you have achieved an incredible dynamism there !
My Ultrabox runs PacBang with OpenBox since 2017 and I never had a single problem, incredibly faithful !
On my workstation or PC-Desktop, for me, I use both BSD and EndeavourOS indistinctly, since computing, is for me a hobby, a great pastime that makes me forget a little of what I’m going through in my life …
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EOS on the old laptop that’s my sandbox for playing with linux stuff without worrying about breaking things. Manjaro on my main desktop and little tablet-pc. Ubuntu on the computer at my university office, mainly because I sometimes don’t go there for weeks at a time (especially in these covid times), which makes a rolling release tricky. Thinking hard about switching my main home desktop to EOS, but I’ll probably wait for the holidays when I have some free time.
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My lappy runs EOS, my desktop runs win10+EOS, my web servers run Arch, my media server runs ubuntu (for no real reason) and I have macOS on a MBP somewhere. Aside from work and certain games, I’m mostly in the Linux sphere.
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Arch on my daily driver desktop PC, and Debian Sid on my secondary desktop PC.
Arch or Debian Sid on my various laptops.
EndeavourOS on a VM, and 9front on another VM.
Finally, I have the SSD that used to be my daily driver. It has SolydXK on it. I connect the SSD and boot into it once a month or so to update.
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I have EndeavourOS on my desktop and laptop…pure. Why would I want anything else? 
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- On my main gaming computer:
- SSD: Windows
Only reason I have this partition is because I intend on selling the PC next summer, so will be easier to reformat from a windows partition. Plus, saves the buyer having to buy a windoze license. - HDD: MX Linux
Only partition I use. Haven’t used windows partition since installing MX Linux.
- On my old gaming laptop:
- Solus and Windows
Solus/System-d destroyed my boot partition
So, I can only boot into Solus - Which in all honesty isn’t that bad, as I only wanted to dual boot in case I need Windows in an emergency.
- Sister’s 2x old HP Laptops for College & Uni:
Endeavour OS on the one (Single boot)
Elementary OS on the other (Single boot)
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On my PC I have an NVME with Windows 10 and a SATA with EndeavourOS. I only use the Windows drive for gaming and any other task where I may need to use Windows. For everything else, I roll with EndeavourOS.
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nobody perfect 
… i just joke with you 
your machine your rules 
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Hmmm - I’ve been dual-booting for a LONGGG time now - 1993? Windows and TAMU. Lilo wasn’t great, but it worked…
Machine 1
- EndeavourOS
- Arch
- Garuda
- Xubuntu 20.04
- ?? testing…
Machine 2
- EndeavourOS XFCE
- EndeavourOS Cinnamon
- Arch XFCE
- Arcolinux
- Xubuntu Rolling Rhino (currently rolling as Gorilla 20.10)
- MX Linux 19
- Arch - bloated (!) testing
Machine 3
- 9 X EndeavourOS (all DE testing - see Wiki pt 2
)
Why? Well -
- Habit
- Having a working system always available
- Testing capabilites
- General knowledge
- sometimes can test stuff for helping others
- Nuts? - probably, but they are shrinking slowly as I go. Tending to standardize on XFCE - and EnOS is the least work to run/fix
Edit: Forgot inherited sister’s laptop…
- Win 7
- Arch
gave me practice for BIOS Arch install - proved I could pass their test
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Woah!! 
And I thought I had quite a few distros/systems to keep on top of managing/updating. 
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Shoot, that’s a lot of stuff to maintain…i’m more lazy, i only have Endeavour here - no dual boot or whatsoever.
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It’s not as bad as it seems - once I’ve seen what the updates are once - then I don’t have to pay much attention to the rest! What that means as a practical matter is that I use the KVM to swap between machines 1 & 2 - and third is hooked to the TV, so updates started during ads while watching the game…
The only tricky one of the rest is the rolling Ubuntu - and it has been surprisingly stable so far…
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My first dual boot was win98SE/XP. Anyway that desktop is retired.
My desktop is multi-boot with Win10(stale)/Manjaro(stale)/Mint + spare partitions for bare metal testing. My new laptop was going to have Manjaro/Win/Mint, but at the moment it has Win10/EnOS/Sparky - though Sparky’s kernel is still too old for the hardware. I also have a battleworn UEFI32 baytrail 2-in-1 that has hosted (triple boot) win8/win10/Ubuntu/Mint/Manjaro/Manjarox32/MX-Linux/Peppermint among others. Any distro that can host Cinnamon easily is interesting to me.
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