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School is starting up soon, and I want to install a stable distro to a 64GB flash drive that i own will remain stable while booting onto at least 2 computers (my home PC for maintenance and my School laptop for, well school).

I was thinking of just using Debian, but wasn’t sure if it would work well in terms of compatibility with my requirements.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're using the flash drive as a block storage device with a root partition, I think just about any distribution would fit your requirements. Just try experimenting with it and make sure that both your machines can boot into the flash drive.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, thanks. I just wasn't sure if there were compatibility or stability issues with certain distros from switching machines so much.

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