Porteus

Hmm, I always run my live CDs as root. But of course I meant:

Possibly this:

This looks rather like what see with Xubuntu (so XFCE) 18.04.3 ...
My hunch is that things are provoked by systemd/logind ...

Actually, the guest-additions do a lot more than that..

That is why I said "... and you do not *need* the additions".
At least for my use case (developing, testing and running live ISOs) the other features as mentioned in your link are dispensable. But YMMV ...

Actually the guest-additions are optional. Run an ftp server on your host and you do not need the additions.

I downloaded the Porteus-XFCE-v4.0-i586.iso from http://dl.porteus.org/i586/Porteus-v4.0. Its bootsplash says "Porteus 4.0 32bit" and once started a "uname -a" in an xterm says "Linux porteus 4.16.3-porteus #1 SMP ... i686 ...". It might be that your 32-bit boxes are older than i686. In that case go...

How about balenaEtcher-1.5.70-x64.AppImage?

For me it works like a charm with Porteus, Slackware, Ubuntu, Windows ...

Or use a script so you can toggle your touchpad(s): #!/bin/sh # _tp : enable/disable/toggle the touchpad(s) # =========================================== # (c) DLCB 28/10-2019 # Usage: _tp [0|1] # 0=enable, !0=disable, default is toggle DEVS="$(xinput | grep -i touchpad | awk '{print $(NF-3)}' | awk...

Enable Settings -> DRM -- the Widevine plugin should be provided automatically then.
For as far as I am aware that is all I did to play Netflix (as I did for the first time two days ago streaming to an oldish TV).

Because burdi01 I can transfer files to it when I boot to Windows on my notebook. And IMO if I can do it in Windows I should be able to do it in Linux. Without adding anything to it. If I understand you correctly the crux of your problem is this "Without adding anything to it". And is that "it" you...

@Ed_P: What is holding you back from installing an FTP or SSH/SFTP server on your Win7/10 box? Tutorials abund on the net.

SFTP should do the trick out of the box.
But FTP, Samba and NFS are possibilities too.

Looks like https://superuser.com/questions/489180/ ... ash-script ...
When removing the double quotes you seem to have removed the CRs as well.

correct me if i'm wrong: decompression times don't have an effect beyond activation(therefore boot times), ie. once loaded to the union there should be no difference in performance.. For as far as I am aware squashfses loaded in the union are still in compressed format -- it would take a lot of mem...

My experiences with ntfs-3g are that writing files is more than speedy enough, it is creating the files that is slow. So copying from ntfs-3g via usb 3.0 to ntfs-3g my 131G backup directory with relatively large and hence relatively few files takes 14 mins, but doing the same for a 125G documents di...