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For example, when you are trying out a distro using Live CD’s and you wish to save some text file or install an application, you will not be able to see those files and apps on the next boot. When you are booting up from a Live CD image burnt to a USB (like Ubuntu and Fedora Live CD’s) all the changes you make are written to the RAM and once your session is over and you shut down the machine, all the data is gone.

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USB persistent distros are those which can store user data in the USB flash drive so that on next boot all the software you have installed will not vanish like traditional USB Live sessions do. But what is the meaning of USB persistent? Most distros can be booted up and run from a USB flash drive these days to test them out or do system repair jobs without affecting the contents of the hard drive. Let’s start by looking at the answer to the basic question “What does USB Persistent mean?” That is just the short version of the answer, let’s go ahead and look at the longer and more informative version and learn what were the factors considered, what other choices you have and see why the above distros are chosen as the best USB Persistent Linux distros! Hard to install some apps that doesn’t come directly with the OS Good support for older hardware through AntiX Magic software The footprint is very big as MX Linux needs 5GB of hard disk space The table below summarises the main features of these 3 distros Let us start by look at the short version of the answer for those of you in a hurry!īest Middle weight USB persistent distro: MX Linux 2 nd Best Middle Weight USB persistent distro: Antix Linux Best Lightweight USB persistent distro: Puppy Linux Comparison Table consumes minimal space so that we can do this on relatively smaller USB drives.(so that we don’t need to do too much hacking) designed to be able to run from USB on your flash drive while being persistent between sessions.

Our focus will be to do this with a space flash drive we already have with limited space, so this article’s focus will be on distros that are
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Let’ go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences of the best USB persistent Linux distros! Almost any Linux Distro can be installed on a USB flash drive and made persistent, but we need to do some hacking and install software like TimeShift and a full install to get that done! Also they usually require large USB’s (64GB or 128GB) the price of which matches traditional external hard drives and SSDs. This article is for those of you looking for a Linux distro which is USB persistent so that you can run Linux using just your USB flash drive.
