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What portable utilities do you carry with you.
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Is having an OS boot on a USB really all that useful? Serious question.
Maybe not the same, but a knoppix CD was part of my toolkit for field work for many years. Stuff I did with it:
It can be handy for recovery
Definitely, besides playing around with it and booting it on random Laptops, I revived two notebooks on the go. One had a broken windows install(somehow the main C drive nuked itself into 8 separate partitions) and she was still running Linux 1 month after that so I guess a win, and the other windows “Laptop” was super laggy(3-4 Gib of ram), but I granted the machine another two solid years(one time laptop run out of power during an big update, rest was great).