I just got a new laptop and installed Linux on it. I mainly run OpenSUSE.
Getting full encryption on both was a bit of a challenge and I had no idea what I’m doing. Will having the swap partition in the middle break things? Did I really need so many partitions (Mint and OpenSUSE don’t show up in eachother’s boot menu)?
I’m probably not gonna change this layout (because reinstallation seems like a pain) unless the swap partition’s position is a problem. I’m just curious how many mistakes I made.
Partitions on SSDs are generally bad for long term performance and sustainability, so yeah, not great. If I were you I’d delete the Windows partition and extend one of the others. Also you could have the individual Linux distro partitions be smaller if you used a single home partition across them. That would probably minimize any negative side effects of partitioning the hell out of an SSD.
Looked it up and that’s wrong. An SSD doesn’t wear-level based on the partitions but on a firmware level.