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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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[–] Red1C3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mint works pretty well as a persistent flash drive distro, the packages are a bit outdated though if you’re going to do a lot of programming

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I'd go with something that supports booting in secure boot mode like fedora or Ubuntu(direct derivatives maybe). And yes, install to am external drive if you plan on having persistence.

[–] Ew0 0 points 1 year ago

Alpine works great off a usb, I run sway and quite a few other bits off it on a run-from-ram/encrypted config.

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