Thread: Anyone here running Linux from a USB drive?
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Old 07-04-2010, 06:49 PM   #19
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I have a USB with Puppy Linux on it which I use when I want to use use linux on my wife's computer. (She won't let me make any real changes on her machine.) Very fast and perfectly useable. My only complaint is that if you want it to be persistent, changing and reloading the state from the USB seems a bit slow.

I don't really see the point of Wubi. Of course it's going to be slower than putting linux on a real partition, or booting from USB. What is the benefit exactly? Just not having to repartition the harddrive?

Can you run multiple programs at once? Just take a look at some of the Compiz compositing videos on you tube, e.g.:

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