What is the performance difference between live booting from a USB pen, and installed on an eMMC drive? (lemmy.ca)

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I am not quite ready to switch to a GNU/Linux yet, but I have live booted Linux Mint Xfce yesterday, with most things working, but much worse for launching times, etc. Would it be any different if I installed it on my eMMC drive? Since they are both based on NAND flash memory, I am clueless about it.

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Installed will be faster.

But you should note that emmc systems are not intended for heavy use. They have a much shorter wearout lifespan than SSDs. If you or your OS do a lot of writing to disk, you might end up with a failure.

Just be aware of that possibility, and have backups.

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