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What portable utilities do you carry with you. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 for maybe an additional Linux light version
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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No reason you can't also have a data partition on the drive, provided your drive is big enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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).