

This list is all about booting into a full-fledged Linux desktop that can serve your needs and serve them well. These are not intended to be live distributions for administrators (like, for example, PartedMagic, Clonezilla, or SystemRescueCD). What I have done is collect the five distributions I believe show off the idea of live Linux best. One user’s favorite distribution is another’s most hated. Pull out your trusty live Linux USB drive and boot up your distribution of choice.īut, which distributions make for the best live experience? That’s a challenging question, and one that is clearly susceptible to bias. Don’t want to boot into a Windows computer? Fine. What does this mean to you? It means you can either use a live distribution to test whether Linux is right for you, or you can carry around a Linux distribution to use at your discretion. By running completely from RAM, a live Linux distribution allows you to run a full instance of the operating system (from either CD/DVD or USB) without making changes to your current system. The flagship open source platform does things no other operating system can do.
