As I Xi It

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been meddling around with Ubuntu on my USB stick. At first I tried using this method (Click here) but I couldn’t get it to save my settings after shutting down eventho’ I opted for the persistent install. Next I tried Xubuntu’s persistent install which did save my settings, but it was a bit heavy to run for some reason. Xubuntu’s suppose to require less resources than Ubuntu so you’d expect it to be faster, but that wasn’t the case. I found it awkward to customise the interface as well.

So, this evening, I finally made a working Ubuntu persistent install on my USB stick using the Live CD method (see here). It basically involved downloading the .iso from the Ubuntu site, burning it onto a CD, booting up from the CD, enter the demo mode and using the USB install from within Ubuntu. It’s still a bit slow, but that’s to be expected since it’s running off a USB stick instead of a hard drive.

Initial impressions are that it looks nicer than Windows XP, but I don’t think its as easy to use, but then I am a newbie at the whole Linux thing. So far I’ve managed to change the theme, put up new wallpaper and add/remove some software. I think further meddling’s required.