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Run Linux from USB and use storage only for... storage: yay or nay (and why)?
(piefed.blahaj.zone)
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won't have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn't run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?
It's not a deal-breaker or anything tho. Just not for something long term. Totally feasible as something quick and dirty tho.
Yes, I did that for a while some years ago. It was fine. Good enough for using it in a training. And I lost interest in that setup early enough that the stick survives to this day.