Linux on a Stick

[Madchatthew]

I purposely didn’t boot up to the USB drive for over a month. I booted up the USB Linux on a stick today and went to the console and did the update command for Arch and no issues whatsoever like in the past. I installed Reflector and it updated the source files for me automatically and I was just able to run the update with no issues. It was so awesome!!

It just worked. So I recommend that if anyone installs and uses Arch whether for a server or desktop for their daily driver that you install Reflector in case you don’t update for awhile for whatever reason.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew I guess I’m just not brave enough for Arch, but then again, I felt the same way about Manjaro before I got into it. Having said that, I’ve not used Manjaro for some years so perhaps it’s time to revisit.

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab I tried Manjaro before. I believe I liked it overall. It is one of the ones that I was interested in, but for some reason there was something with it that I didn’t like. Unfortunately, my brain isn’t allowing me to remember what that was. Another thing that I did that I forgot to mention, was after doing the updates, I tested the three games that I installed on it. The one game that I play with my daughter, I just had to reinstall with the setup file and then it worked just fine afterwards and automatically picked up the settings and data that was already stored. For steam, I had to reboot the computer but once I did that, then Steam worked just fine. I installed Minecraft on it and that just worked as soon as I double clicked on it, before the reboot.

I am still quite a newbie with Arch, but so far, I really like it and am actually quite surprised how so far things just seem to just work with it. Now that may be a different story when I go to install it on the desktop and go through these same processes, but my hope is that it will be the same experience.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew Sounds very positive indeed.

[Madchatthew]

Wanted to post another update. I booted up to my usb stick with Arch Linux on it. I hadn’t booted up to it in over three months and with Arch, that is too long of a time to not update. Unless, you have reflector installed. I booted up to the usb stick and updated arch through the terminal and everything updated without a hitch.

I went from linux 6.15.9.arch1-1 to linux 6.17.5.arch1-1. KDE Plasma went from 6.4.4-1 to 6.5.0-1. Everything worked as it should with no issues. Linux on a stick is AWESOME!! I should also note that it was a different computer than the last time I booted up to it. Very versatile.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew I’ve just put KDE Neon back on my laptop - missed it way too much!!

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab that is awesome!! I know you will really enjoy that haha

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew the thing I like the most is that you can sweat older hardware for much longer than under Windows.

That, and the Linux operating system is much better.

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab yeah i like that as well. I am so confident about Linux, that I switched the computers at the private church school that my mom helps at from windows 10 to Linux. The computers are over 10 years old from when I built them and they are still running good. Just not compatible with windows 11, because once again, Microsoft is dumb and they suck. Linux loaded with no issues and I put the network drives in the fstab file and it all works really nice and they run faster than what they were running with winblows on them. So yeah, I like that as well that Linux can run on older hardware and keep the computer running longer.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew Good for the planet in terms of land fill too!

[DownPW]

I have tested ZorinOS in the last version, his desktop DE is very cool.
I have tested imutable Fedora Kinoite, he is cool too

[Madchatthew]

@DownPW I haven’t tried either of those, I am sure they run fast as well. Linux is so versatile it is awesome!