{"id":211311,"date":"2026-02-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/here-are-5-reasons-you-should-too\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:25:09","slug":"here-are-5-reasons-you-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/here-are-5-reasons-you-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are 5 reasons you should too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick\/\">Here are 5 reasons you should too<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Operating systems are complex and large pieces of software, and the same goes for Linux systems. Fortunately, there are still plenty of small Linux distros available. They&#8217;re also quite useful things to keep on spare USB drives or virtual machines. Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tiny-linuxes-are-fun-to-play-with\">\n                        Tiny Linuxes are fun to play with<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p> The main reason that I like small Linux distros is that they&#8217;re just so fun to try out. When physical machines were the only way to run Linux on PCs, there was a kind of magic in booting up a small operating system. Even in the &#8217;90s and early 2000s, Windows had a reputation as a lumbering behemoth. With Linux distros seeming to put on more weight, they resembled the system that had come preinstalled on their machines, which users were trying to get away from.<\/p>\n<p>A small Linux system seemed like a breath of fresh air back then. Distros like Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, and Tiny Core Linux could fit comfortably on a CD-R. Tom&#8217;s Root Boot famously ran on a floppy disk. With floppy disks and CD-Rs falling out of use, many distros can squeeze comfortably on a USB stick. You can run several of them on a single USB drive with Ventoy.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 reasons you should too https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-08 11:00:00 Source Domain: www.howtogeek.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/52952620402_41f02815cc_o-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-211311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211313,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211311\/revisions\/211313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}