Live usage poll. How often do you use MX as a live operating system?

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#1 Post by **Adrian** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:04 pm

I wonder how often people use MX Live environment, I tried to provide a spectrum of choices starting from 0 (never, only to install MX) to 5 (use only as a Live OS).

By live I mean of course booting from USB, or perhaps frugal installation too since it's very similar to Live.

I aslo wonder if people use remastering and persistency, but I didn't want to add more confusing options to this poll.

#2 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:27 pm

I keep live media as back-up build environments when I can't make pbuilder work, and keep a separate update-as-you-go live-usb as backup installation media. I tend to customize a live-usb rather than make snapshots of installed systems.

#3 Post by **DukeComposed** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:07 pm

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:27 pm I tend to customize a live-usb rather than make snapshots of installed systems.

It's not in keeping with the spirit of the question, but the easiest way to install MX Linux in a ZFS-on-root setup is to unsquash the live ISO file system (/live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs) to a mounted ZFS dataset and customize it from there with chroot. So in a sense, I use a live version of MX every day, just not from a DVD or USB drive.

#4 Post by **Jerry3904** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:21 pm

I keep a Live version up to date and use it mostly when I travel or to fix/adjust things

#5 Post by **signaloss** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:22 pm

Adrian wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:04 pm By live I mean of course booting from USB, or perhaps frugal installation too since it's very similar to Live.
I aslo wonder if people use remastering and persistency, but I didn't want to add more confusing options to this poll.

i'm doing exactly these two things all the time and love mx linux / antiX for making this so easy and fun. everything is so smooth and consistent that its unbelievable.

#6 Post by **fan_of_LTS** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:51 pm

By time to time I mean at least several times a month. I always use MX Live USB after creating a snapshot to make sure I have everything I need (and especially that it is encrypted) and I make a snapshot everytime I make major changes and occasionally for experimenting.

The MX tools are great and I appreciate their usefulness and thoughtful design.

#7 Post by **richb** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:29 pm

Once per month I make a snapshot of my installed system. Then make a live USB from the resulting iSO to keep a backup of my installed system.

#8 Post by **rokytnji.1** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:50 pm

I use antiX instead. Just used to it. This is to fix things. I don't make live snapshots and run them. I just try and not break things.

Like right now I am posting from this. I trip out I am on login screen the second I hit the power button. If I used auto login. Wonder if Icewm would show up instead

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harry@antix1:~
$ inxi -SM
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 6.1.31-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 3.4.0 Distro: antiX-23-beta2-runit_x64-full Arditi del
    Popolo 11 June 2023
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Intel model: NUC5i3RYB v: H41000-504
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: Intel
    v: RYBDWi35.86A.0358.2016.0606.1423 date: 06/06/2016

#9 Post by **CharlesV** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:51 pm

The survey should have been a check box, not a radio :-) ..

I use live systems in four different ways:

First, I now have four clients that use liveUSB's to boot up their computers (19 in total). The usb's are custom built for each office, to run basically Thunderbird, libreoffice and firefox and links to onsite apps / data area. These do not have persistence. (I do have a data area on board each stick.)

Second, I create snapshots every month for all my machines. (restore purposes, and again, no persistence.)

Third, I carry to live USB which are used to help recovery computers (windows usually), and / or coy data over to new machines when I upgrade office computers.

And last, I use liveUSB's to create my next machine installs. In a VM, I build my next machine with the next MX version, and get everything the way I want it, test it on machines, including my next one... and then when I am comfortable it all is working as I want it, I install to my new computer.

MX Snapshot and LiveUSB are the best tools I have *ever* found on *any* linux distro. These two things are amazing utilities and tools!!

#10 Post by **asqwerth** » Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:04 am

I mainly use the MX and MX Workbench live to sort out problems.

And whenever a new MX release is out, to make a snapshot of my PC installation after it's customised to install on my laptop.

Besides having them in thumb drives, I also save the iso files of MX and Workbench into a separate "iso" partition in the PC together with Clonezilla and a few other isos. I have custom grub entries in the PC so I can boot live into any of these isos.

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