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Linux Distro For Use On A Flash Drive (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by abuttifulpigeon 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] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bunsenlabs is Debian-based, but doesn't have a classic desktop environment. Instead it uses super lightweight Openbox window manager and some other tricks to emulate one. It will run very well with 20gb disk space (you have triple that at your disposal). If you remove the programs you don't use (the office suite, etc etc) you can trim the install down even more.

[–] spacedancer 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow Bunsenlabs. Now that’s a distro I haven’t heard in a while. lol. I used to have it on an old laptop many many years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Crunchbang was sad to see it go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

BunsenLabs
CrunchBangPlusPlus
ArchLabs – EDIT: discontinued

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

😮

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've tried so many others out and I keep going back to it! I put it on everything haha.

[–] abuttifulpigeon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very helpful, thank you. I will definitely give this a try!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries. It's been my daily driver for a very long time at this point across many different machines. If you do go with Bunsen, it's still on Debian 11. You can safely do an apt dist-upgrade to 12 and it will keep the Bunsenlabs flavor without issue. I often run Sid repo as well, no issues for me.

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

Solid consumer advice