Configurations fail to operate properly after startup from the primary storage device.
Configurations fail to operate properly after startup from the primary storage device.
I strongly dislike the Live CD option offered by many advanced distributions. Starting from my USB is already quite sluggish, and they ignore the fact that it's a Live CD. Everything runs as a complete operating system without any updates, which causes significant lag. Programs often fail to launch (such as setup) and the OS becomes overly aggressive, especially when booting from a pen drive but not recognizing it. Similar to Debian and Arch, why don’t they offer a way to simply rebuild the OS? For this, I prefer extracting the ISO onto a Fat 32-formatted partition so my firmware can read it—my only drive is one. Ubuntu, Arch, probably Debian, and even Windows work perfectly. Fedora didn’t boot at all, and Pop OS couldn’t detect the drive in the CLI, though it was accessible via command line. I suspect Fedora also had a drive-related issue when reading data from its Live CD, but converting to a pen drive fixed that. It’s possible that extracting files on a Fat 32 partition wasn’t compatible, and tools like Rufus or Etcher might alter the files for compatibility, yet Pop OS managed to boot and function normally. I’m constantly switching distros and prefer not to load all of them onto my pen drive due to the slow performance. Could it be that they’re pointing to the wrong /dev/X? But Ubuntu worked despite this.
What USB device are you connecting? It looks like the problem might be with a slow USB drive instead of the Live CD itself. I haven’t encountered these speed issues with those distros and a quick USB stick before. Have you checked out Ventroy? You could use an external SSD for faster performance.
The speed is decent for a USB stick, though the performance isn't great. The latency remains an issue, but it's still usable.
The 10 EUR Kingston 64GB flash drive reads at 100Mb/s and writes at 70Mb/s when handling compressed files.