From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-02-09, 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.   
      
   Looks interesting. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks.   
      
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