heimchenJul 19, 2023

What portable utilities do you carry with you.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/875322

What portable utilities do you carry with you. - tchncs

I personally always have one USB stick with me that has a live usb boot of Fedoraon it, but I just saw the new video from Linus tech tips and thought about extending it a bit. He mostly talked about windows tools, but I think I will add - https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html [https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html] for maybe an additional Linux light version - https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server [https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server] if I have to share files from a broken Computer or so. What are you using or do you have recommendations?

Show threadoaklandnativeJul 19, 2023
I didn’t realize you can have an OS ISO and other programs on the same USB stick. I thought the live boot ISO had to be the only thing on the stick (or multiple ISOs using Ventoy).
Show threadTWeaKJul 19, 2023
No reason you can’t also have a data partition on the drive, provided your drive is big enough.
Show threadheimchen
I looking into buying the usb-c 3.2 gen2 from Kingston with up to 1000/900 read write speed and the minimum is 256GiB so space is no issue.
Jul 19, 2023 at 7:28pmWeb
Show threadTWeaKJul 19, 2023

Yeah I have some decently speedy USB-A 3.0 drives, they’re essential to me these days. Although I’ve filled them with too much crap to use as a boot drive for anything lol. They’re only 400MBps, but weren’t expensive.

One thing I’ve noticed though, it ends up saturating a pair of USB ports in a lot of computers. If I have a second thing in an adjacent port, eg a mouse, things get screwy (mouse movement gets choppy or speeds throttle).