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Really nice idea with the shared swap and storage!
Caveats:
Apart from that, great recommendation!
In the end you can simply delete all partitions except your storage partition, reinstall any distro and mount that partition to
/homeFedora's swap on zram shouldn't pose a problem - at most it won't use the disk swap, but other distros still would.
Encryption is important but I wonder if OP would make much use out of it, given that he plans to bulk store his items in the cloud. The storage partition would be mostly for things "at hand". And if necessary, as you said, some elbow grease lets you have encryption and still access it from all distros.
I don't recommend OP to mount that partition directly to
/homeitself. It's bound to create problems later on due to software in different versions interacting with software that may or may not be present depending on the distro. Mounting it inside some other directory (even inside /home, e.g. /home/username/storage) feels considerably safer.Right you would then have something like
...
What a mess. But if you kinda keep track of what is what (maybe search for the packages
dnfaptyayand so on) it can workIt's less messy than it looks like.
Physically you'd have N+2 partitions for N systems: one for swap, another for storage, and N for system files. Then inside each system you'd have simply to mount the swap, /, and /home/user/storage.
I recommended OP to turn EFI off, it sounds pointless in his situation. Regarding /boot: it boils down to installing grub in one of those distros, and letting it manage the boot.