Re: Looking for persistent distro

William Unruh <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:55:10 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.linux
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2024-02-17, Bozo User <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2023-03-19, Monsieur <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I like to have a live system on a usb-stick that can remember my 
>> keyboard layout and that automatically boots into the system instead of 
>> waiting until I select this or that option to boot.
>>
>> MX Linux used to be perfect for this, but this distro is becoming more 
>> annoying with every update. The most recent update (Wildflower) does no 
>> longer want to remember my keyboard layout; instead it wants me to 
>> choose my keyboard *every* time it boots up. So exit MX for me.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend another "persistent" distro that's less annoying 
>> than MX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Liveslax. You can even overlay packages on top of it.

I suspect that it has an auxilliary partition on the usb stick where
changes are saved. Making changes in the original live distro is
apparently hard.

Most live distros have that possibility. Are you sure that MX does not
as well?