From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 09/02/2026 17:35, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > I routinely/regularly dl linux distro .iso/s to a bootable Ventoy SSD   
   > and boot them up to 'check them out'. I rarely do any tweaking or   
   > changes to the default, depending on how much time I spend with a   
   > distro, with the exception of employing sticky keys (or xkbset if   
   > there's no sticky).   
   >   
   > There are some distro/s that I want to 'mess with' some more that   
   > cause me to 'go to the trouble' of planning to reboot them live and   
   > make them live with persistence.   
   >   
   > Not many distro/s are 'easily' enabled to be persistent; MX/AntiX are   
   > robust in their persistence abilities, Puppy is 'natively' persistent,   
   > I've enabled persistence on EasyOS, and used Sudoku's/Nio Wiklund's   
   > mkusb for Ub & Mint in the past.   
   >   
   > I recently booted Lilidog and liked it well enough to want to spend   
   > more time with it and make it persistent, so I employed Ventoy's   
   > persistence strategy by Ventoying a 32G USB using its linux web UI   
   > tool, copying Lilidog to it, then using Ventoy's clever 'plugson'   
   > tools to make a .json for a persistence.dat for it so that now the   
   > ventoy usb can boot a live persistent Lilidog.   
   >   
   > For those who like to boot live linux distro/s, whether it be with a   
   > VM or Ventoy, I recommend Lilidog. I haven't checked out his other   
   > releases; I'm kinda interested in seeing what Waydog has to offer in   
   > Wayland varieties.   
   >   
   >   
   I create an Oracle VM with bare minimum install (Ubuntu and other   
   distros have two ways to install so I normally go for minimum). Disk   
   size 25GB, 2 processors, 4096MB Ram. So it is always there and can   
   access it using putty and do all sorts of things with it knowing that it   
   can't damage anything else on the machine.   
      
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