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Linux Distro For Use On A Flash Drive (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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School is starting up soon, and I want to install a stable distro to a 64GB flash drive that i own will remain stable while booting onto at least 2 computers (my home PC for maintenance and my School laptop for, well school).

I was thinking of just using Debian, but wasn’t sure if it would work well in terms of compatibility with my requirements.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're using the flash drive as a block storage device with a root partition, I think just about any distribution would fit your requirements. Just try experimenting with it and make sure that both your machines can boot into the flash drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, thanks. I just wasn't sure if there were compatibility or stability issues with certain distros from switching machines so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only trade off here is that read/write operations are going to be throttled by the speed of your flash drive which will be very noticeable compared to NVME internal storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only trade off here is that read/write operations are going to be throttled

I agree with this, definitely noticeable with FD and maybe the better solution imo is buy SSD SATA 128gb, installed Ventoy on that, move all your ISO linux to Ventoy, and you can boot all Linux in one page without any flashing one by one again.

Very convinient, less effort, and more flexible according to your needs in instant. Start with FD 64gb is fine (as I started from that too), but in the end, I need to buy external SSD for not compromise the speed and storage (minus the size though than FD)..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There might need to be some extra firmware packages which need to new installed, but they’re shouldn’t be any problems from switching hardware.