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I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Also the smaller OS’s (puppy linux, tailOS) that can run entirely in RAM are going to be fast when it comes to anything but disk reads.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      OS’s

      It’s just “OSes”, and it doesn’t need to waste an apostrophe. They’re going extinct, you know.

    • INeedMana@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      I also thought about running from RAM but I guess the transcription might be needing the RAM too. So that route probably depends on how much RAM there is available