When you shut down with apps open, does it boot back up with those apps open as if you hibernated it or does it start without the apps open as if you pressed shut down
In actually installed Manjaro KDE to a usb stick... I have done that with Peppermint, Mint Cinnamon, Zorin and MX Linux … All worked fine as a portable Linux drive.
There is a way to take a persistence USB and add a login password. You have to create a admin user with password and delete the actors login. I did it on Linux Mint 20 and it works great. I log in with username and password. It also allows you to require a password before making changes just like a hard drive install.
8:42-8:47 There are portable SSDs that fit perfectly on keychains. There's one from SanDisk that goes from 500GB all the way up to 4TB and there's even a Samsung one that goes all the way up to 8TB. I think that would be perfect for installing Linux on-the-go.
I once installed Linux Mint on an SD card (not as live session but by installing it the way as you mentioned in 8:29) and I found it only useful if your device didn't have any internal drive. I still don't recommend it as the sd card speed is just painfully slow. If you want a live USB with security in mind, I would recommend TAILS OS.
You can get an M.2 to USB adapter and a small (128GB) M.2 Sata SSD for a decent price. This would run over USB 3 at full speed and without the concern of write cycles. If you were to boot the iso into a virtual machine with the USB-SSD added as a drive instead of a virtual hard-disk, you should be able to get a fully featured install (with encryption). This would be a far better on-the-go experience - encrypted filesystem or home, full SSD speeds and still fits in your pocket. (Bit bulkier but still fairly small)
Man, i wish I’d seen this sooner. I make a persistent portable USB with Manjaro XFCE. I just used one flash drive for the live USB and a second flash drive to use as my “hard disk” in the installer. It worked great for a while with my MacBook, but trying to use it on another PC has given me nothing but headaches.
I tried in using Mx Linux KDE worked great used a 32 gb Evo usb 3 worked quite fast . As one user said use a m,2 Sata stick and a usb drive encloser and your get sata 3 speeds
My main concern is that my Workspace standard is into the OS space. I want my workspace on another partition !! .... feels safer .... Can you telle me how to do this in Linux .... to replace my Home folder to that other partition ?? How to create that partition (with Gparted) and then replecing my Home folder to the new partition.
I thought that the persistant option in Rufus just left a blank partition so you can install to it, but it makes the live environment persistant without waiting for it to install!
But when you shut down with apps open, does it open up with those apps open as if you hibernated it or does it start without the apps open as if you pressed shut down
That's a pretty interesting question, and (this is speculation) I would say that it can't be updated through a conventional update, because it's not a full installation. It's a live ISO that is running an additional partition that stores changes that have been made per session.
