Recently, I’ve been wanting to make a custom live iso with a couple of tools that I need but I really don’t know where to start or what to do… any help?
E: I didn’t phrase my post correctly, I need a portable set of desktop tools for development, running on the gnome desktop
- You can install Linux to external drives/USB sticks and boot from them.
- Some live systems offer persistence via a separate partition on the USB stick. You might want to look into those.
it’s not portable (a single iso file), and I don’t care about persistence that much tbh, to me it’s more important to be able to customize the system and add the things I need to it
Okay, so your main goal really is your own Linux live ISO? Unfortunately I don’t really have experience with that.
Just use Puppy Linux. Puppy creates a r/w overlay file which can be updated with any changes you make, so you can install any programs you like and have a persistent session. It’s also optimised for flash drive usage too - if your system has enough RAM, it can load the entire image into the RAM, making it very fast.
Are you looking for something like Fedora CoreOS maybe? Or NixOS?
