USB MultiSystem Utility

I have one MultiSystem USB which I use to display Linux distributions to new comers.

It supports most of the Ubuntu Based Distributions except Ubuntu.

I have installed Gparted as a default distribution.
It is there for "on the go" partitioning of new hard disk.

Tails do not support it now but it used to support it.

I am going to install Linux Mint cinnamon desktop today.

Arched based Manjero can be booted with MultiSystem but none of the Debian Live DVDs is supported.

It needs Squash file (single hierarchical file) for live booting.

Almost all Puppy Linux distributions support squash file system.

Instead of having several Puppy Linux USN sticks in my pocket several can be included  in a MultiSystem USB with 32GB storage.

Interestingly, Knoppix with a persistent store is included in my MultSystem USB stick.

Its booting CD is not freely available and it comes from France with English language support.

Testing Manjaro Linux, Tuxedo Linux and Linux Mint

 It is raining and Thunder Storms in Australia and I am going to be brief.

Overall I like Tuxedo since it is developed for a particular hardware. It is from Germany and I know very little German to navigate the web page.

I ended up Ctr + Alt and F1 to exit.

Manjero is good but NOT for a newcomer, for very good reasons.
I do not like this immutable file configuration system.
I come from the background of flexibility and openness but not on proprietary domination.

I some time laugh at Apple Mac users who pay through their noses and see the same software (Husband and Wife or Love and Hate relationship ) from beginning of the year to the year end.

I even say, if you have Love and Hate relationship buy an Apple Mac to steam out your frustrations.

Coming to Manjaro, good things first.

1. It configures the WiFi but one has to search through the desktop to reach the wireless tool..

2. Night light and lighter (not the darker shade) shade of the Genome desktop was pleasing for my eyes but lack of clean sheet appearance of Gnome desktop is not soothing to the eyes.

Going for bad things,

3. Installer is Calamara which I hate (see my blog piece here).

4. I look for a Writer application at the beginning (at least should include 28 to 32 MB Abiword) to open a document in my hard drive but it could not do that in a Live Session.

5. It has no software at all to begin with.

This is why, I say it is not good for a beginner.

Buy the way, I have never used Arch and it was a pain for decades and Manjaro was the only distribution which took some forward steps to popularize Arch!

So do not kill the enthusiasm by being very restrictive on software in a Live session.

Becoming Paranoid is an early sign of dementia.

Many more "itchy bits" of Manjaro but that is why I always use Ubuntu and Debian for my work.

I had been using Emmabantus which has everything one wants in one installation including WiFi (Debian was very slow to pick up but is now on equal footing with its enormous software "load" both in new Software and Synaptic package manger).

Linux Mint has Gnome, Cinnamon and Mate desktops and all are pretty good.

But I use the Debian Mint (coming from Debian base).

Gnome desktop has evolved a lot and has BOX for Virtualization which is a damn good introduction.

Rain has stopped but I will also stop for a few days.