{"id":284591,"date":"2026-07-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-always-keep-porteux-portable-linux-distro-on-a-usb-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:45:09","slug":"i-always-keep-porteux-portable-linux-distro-on-a-usb-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-always-keep-porteux-portable-linux-distro-on-a-usb-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I always keep PorteuX portable Linux distro on a USB &#8211; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/porteux-linux-is-one-of-the-best-portable-distributions-ive-used\/\">I always keep PorteuX portable Linux distro on a USB &#8211; here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/porteux-linux-is-one-of-the-best-portable-distributions-ive-used\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/porteux-linux-is-one-of-the-best-portable-distributions-ive-used\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PorteuX Linux is a portable Linux distro based on Slackware.<\/li>\n<li>With plenty of options for app installation, it&#8217;s far more flexible than others.<\/li>\n<li>You can choose from several desktops when using PorteuX.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There have been several times over the past few months that I&#8217;ve thought, &#8220;Man, I wish I had Linux to run on this machine.&#8221; Maybe I&#8217;m in someone&#8217;s office where they&#8217;re having networking issues, and the only machines available are Windows 11 &#8212; which I do not like nor want to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: 10 things I always do immediately after installing Linux &#8211; and why<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;m at a friend&#8217;s house and want to show them what Linux looks like and what it can do.<\/p>\n<p>When those situations arise, I&#8217;m always grateful to have a portable Linux distribution on a USB drive that I can boot from and use.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried many, many portable Linux distributions over the years, but PorteuX may well be the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What makes PorteuX so good?<\/h2>\n<p>To start with, running PorteuX is incredibly easy. You don&#8217;t even have to run the usual process for creating a Live Linux device, because you can simply copy the contents of the ISO image to media storage, change into the \/boot folder (on the USB device), and run either porteux-installer-for-linux.run (on Linux) or porteux-installer-for-windows.exe (on Windows), and the USB drive will be created so it&#8217;s bootable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that if you use a tool like Rufus, uNetBootin, or Etcher, the bootable unit will be set to read-only, so there&#8217;ll be no persistent storage.<\/p>\n<p>What else sets PorteuX apart from the rest? In addition to being very user-friendly, it also offers support for several Linux desktop environments, including Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a05 reasons why Pop!_OS is my favorite Linux distro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I opted to test the COSMIC version of PorteuX, and I was impressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"PorteuX Linux\" width=\"1280\" height=\"802.6270523846755\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>I do love System76&#8217;s COSMIC desktop.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Screenshot by Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another thing that impressed me about PorteuX was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/porteux-linux-is-one-of-the-best-portable-distributions-ive-used\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always keep PorteuX portable Linux distro on a USB &#8211; here&#8217;s why https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/porteux-linux-is-one-of-the-best-portable-distributions-ive-used\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/252e3292f11c32604005ebfc05d7b4a65a5f9d32\/2026\/07\/01\/0f323eb5-6925-47c9-ac39-b6add7b7e57a\/porteuxhero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,161],"class_list":["post-284591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-slackware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284591"}],"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=284591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284593,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284591\/revisions\/284593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}