On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:29 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 01:17:31PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > I dont know the state of persistent live installs these days - I know it > > previously has been pretty shaky. If it's better now, then if we could set > > them up with that it'd be ideal. Maybe we could recommend some nice USB > > flash drive HW for the task as well. > > It's the same is it was, so, yeah, that's my trepidation with that > recommendation. > It has improved a lot in dracut upstream. However, none of the Fedora tools have been adjusted to use the newer overlayfs based persistence mechanism in dracut now. So we still use the legacy method that breaks pretty easily. There's also no support in Fedora Media Writer to properly set this up for users at all, which makes it a lot less accessible in the first place. > On the other hand, my hesitation with telling people "dual boot is hard" is > that, like in the referenced Ask question, people are being told by other > distros "setting up dual boot is easy and the best way to get started." > > So, if we say "actually, don't dual boot, here's a whole 'nuther thing which > may require you to install extra software trust us it'll be even easier", a > lot of people are just going to say "never mind, Fedora is making things > complicated again", which is what I wanted to avoid in the first place. > This is absolutely correct. There's no reason we can't make this better from our side, other than we haven't really focused on it for the past decade. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
