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  Looking for persistent distro Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2023-03-19 18:56 +0100
    Re: Looking for persistent distro jeshgrca <jeshgrca@gmail.com> - 2023-03-21 16:37 -0500
      Re: Looking for persistent distro Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2023-03-22 18:44 +0100
    Re: Looking for persistent distro Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-02-17 09:31 +0000
      Re: Looking for persistent distro William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-02-18 20:55 +0000

#555 — Looking for persistent distro

I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my 
keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead of 
waiting until I select this or that option to boot.

MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more 
annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does no 
longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to 
choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.

Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying 
than MX?

Thanks,

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#556

Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> writes:

> I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my
> keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead
> of waiting until I select this or that option to boot.
>
> MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more
> annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does
> no longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to
> choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.
>
> Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying
> than MX?
>
> Thanks,
>

I use openSUSE (the Tumbleweed rolling release specifically) for
everything, and from my experience the live USBs are persistent by
default.

If you want to use the same live installation for a long period of time,
I would recommend just installing directly to the USB stick instead of
using the live ISO. With Tumbleweed you can do this by burning the
net-install ISO (not the DVD ISO) to a USB stick and then once you have
booted it, simply tell it to install to the USB drive as opposed to your
main disk and install as usual.
-- 
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Attributed to Albert Einstein

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#558

jeshgrca wrote:
> Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> writes:
> 
>> I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my
>> keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead
>> of waiting until I select this or that option to boot.
>>
>> MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more
>> annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does
>> no longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to
>> choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying
>> than MX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> 
> I use openSUSE (the Tumbleweed rolling release specifically) for
> everything, and from my experience the live USBs are persistent by
> default.
> 
> If you want to use the same live installation for a long period of time,
> I would recommend just installing directly to the USB stick instead of
> using the live ISO. With Tumbleweed you can do this by burning the
> net-install ISO (not the DVD ISO) to a USB stick and then once you have
> booted it, simply tell it to install to the USB drive as opposed to your
> main disk and install as usual.

Thank you, this is very helpful. Somehow the thought of installing a 
whole system on a usb-stick hadn't crossed my mind yet.

Off to download Tumbleweed now...

Thanks again,

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#572

On 2023-03-19, Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:
> I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my 
> keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead of 
> waiting until I select this or that option to boot.
>
> MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more 
> annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does no 
> longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to 
> choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.
>
> Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying 
> than MX?
>
> Thanks,

Liveslax. You can even overlay packages on top of it.

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#573

On 2024-02-17, Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:
> On 2023-03-19, Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:
>> I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my 
>> keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead of 
>> waiting until I select this or that option to boot.
>>
>> MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more 
>> annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does no 
>> longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to 
>> choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying 
>> than MX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Liveslax. You can even overlay packages on top of it.

I suspect that it has an auxilliary partition on the usb stick where
changes are saved. Making changes in the original live distro is
apparently hard.

Most live distros have that possibility. Are you sure that MX does not
as well?

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