You know what they say about assume - perhaps it has struck again! Would it depend on which VM solution was in use?
I suppose it could but I canāt think of one off the top of my head that wouldnāt support it.
I have tested all flavors of boot managment solutions in a VM. Honestly, stuff like that is easier to test in a VM because of snapshots. You can instantly revert a VM to a previous state including the bootloader/efi variables/etc
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Well - I may not be too old to learn - but I may be too old to make use of the knowledge! 
Thanks for the info - and another thing to work onā¦
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I used to be a single distro user (Ubuntu) for a while. I currently have a triple boot setup - Endeavour, Ubuntu and Fedora - one for each of the āfamilies (arch/debian/redhat-fedora-centos)ā - with a data partition shared between themā¦ I ended up with this when I started distrohopping, but the reasons why I left the multi-boot setup as-is:
- (As someone already mentioned) - If something fails to boot/breaks - easy to boot into another and fix - failover, essentially
- Iām in the process of creating software that could be deployed/used on multiple distros - so a more thorough test setup thats not on the cloud - one for each familyā¦ (test installing an built .deb, an .rpm, etc with folder structures that could be specific to a distro) without using/affecting the main OSā¦ Thats the ideaā¦
That said, Endeavour has become my main desktop, I havent needed to boot into Ubuntu for a while nowā¦ So the first reason may not be valid anymoreā¦ I may end up trying out Silverblue - or Qubes - sometime - may revisit this thenā¦
While shoe-horningā¦
the only point i see in doing it is like i do and dual boot endeavouros with windows and i use windows for gaming (what linux canāt do anyways) and use linux for everything else. i donāt see a real point in dual booting more than one linux os because the only real difference sometimes is package managers and maybe if you wanted to dual boot vanilla arch just to tinker around with it
Thanks for the post and welcome to the forum!
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thanks for the info on linux gaming! if i can get the games i want to play to work in linux then iāll be more than happy to ditch windows completely because i donāt use it for anything else anyways.
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Sure, my pleasure 
If youāll have any trouble or question - just ask in gaming section, maybe we can help figuring it out 
Iāve dropped Windows couple of years ago, 98% of games from my personal library are working great, but you knowā¦There are some problematic ones, in online realms with DRM iāve heard (not online player myself).
Itās getting even better with time!
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awesome! yea, iām not an online player either anyways so it wonāt hurt my feelings if the online feature doesnāt work. i heard that the new kernel, i think they said 5.12 will have some patches added to fix a lot of games that have issues with DRM. not sure about the exact kernel version but i know that theyāre working on it
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You mean EndeavourOS and vanilla Arch? There really is no point, they are pretty much identical.
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yea, i agee. i just installed endeavor when i made that comment but the more i use it, the more i realize that itās pretty much identical like you said to vanilla arch