I have been mostly messing around with ArchBang under a Virtual Machine this week. Always get a kick out of seeing KDE plasma running under a live session. Why would you want to run plasma live? Well for the most part you can pretty much install anything live. Given a working network connection you could install an application that may help you repair an install, recover data, wipe or clean a drive, check hardware specs of target device… list goes on.
Certainly it is not difficult to do. Set up networking and refresh pacman database and you are pretty much good to go.
For example:
sudo pacman -Sy plasma sddm
sudo pacman -Scc # clear out pacman cache to save space
sudo systemctl start sddm # run log in manager from there select plasma [ablive has no password set]
What about running Edge browser under ArchBang I hear you cry…
One thing to note, copy on write space is set at 4Gbs which will allow you do most things but you will soon find that you are running out of space. Simply at syslinux boot menu hit Tab and then replace the kernel option that has 4G with 8G. Do not worry if you forget you can do this live more information here
While doing this I did notice that under UEFI booting of live iso I was very quickly running out of room. This let me to find something I had missed. Had forgotten to add option to systemd-boot entry, thankfully I have fixed this and will be part of upcoming iso image.
Forgive me if I do not upload image at the moment can see 6.13 is in testing so if it does hit repos today then I will of course build and upload image.
Stay safe….