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Linux Distro For Use On A Flash Drive

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.

authed ,

Almost any Linux distribution would fit that purpose

jsnc ,

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.

abuttifulpigeon OP ,

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

jsnc ,

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.

kanzalibrary ,
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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)…

jollyrogue ,

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.

terminhell ,

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.

GrumbleGrim ,

YUMI is a great USB tool that can install multiple bootable ISO’s onto one multi system flash drive. Pendrivelinux.com

Red1C3 ,

Mint works pretty well as a persistent flash drive distro, the packages are a bit outdated though if you’re going to do a lot of programming

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