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Arch-Based Garuda Linux Has A New Release With Snap, Flatpak Support

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It has added new buttons in Garuda Network Assistant app to restart Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. By   Sarvottam Kumar  -   September 1, 2020 Garuda team has  released  a new version 200831 of Garuda Linux, which includes numerous updates and improvements to applications and desktop environments. For those who don’t know, Garuda Linux is an Arch Linux-based rolling distribution focussing only on performance. But unlike Arch, it comes with a graphical Calamares installer and other advanced GUI tools like Garuda Settings Manager and Garuda Boot Repair for managing the system easily. Another interesting feature of Garuda is Linux-zen kernel and Btrfs as a default filesystem with Zstd compression. Surprisingly, Garuda Linux also offers a variety of desktop environments such as KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Wayfire, LXQt-kwin, Deepin, and i3, which further comes in two editions: Ultimate and Lite. Garuda Linux 200831: What’s New? The newly refreshed version has shipped a number of changes to its GUI application

How to Create a Live Ubuntu USB Drive With Persistent Storage

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  A  Linux live USB drive  is normally a blank slate each time you boot it. You can boot it up, install programs, save files, and change settings. But, as soon as you reboot, all your changes are wiped away and you’re back to a fresh system. This can be useful, but if you want a system that picks up where you left off, you can create a live USB with persistent storage. How Persistent Storage Works When you create a USB drive with persistence, you’ll allocate up to 4 GB of the USB drive for a persistent overlay file. Any changes you make to the system—for example, saving a file to your desktop, changing the settings in an application, or installing a program—will be stored in the overlay file. Whenever you boot the USB drive on any computer, your files, settings, and installed programs will be there. This is an ideal feature if you want to keep a live Linux system on a USB drive and use on different PCs. You won’t have to set up your system up from scratch each time you boot. You  don’t