WhiteOakBayou

This does that Tvheadend is tuner/dvr software. I use nextpvr on my windows box and I used to use mythtv on my Linux box. If you want alternatives

Things in this vein were exactly what i was looking for wwhen i made the post. thanks. Freed up almost a gig.

i'm also using a chromebook with 16 gb emmc storage. my installs keep being about 10 gigs with xfce. i was thinking i would end up with just about your numbers but there is almost 5 gigs of other stuff i ended up with from the live disk installer.

I am using xfce atm. I might just have to fix my driver problems and do a netinstall

That's a good idea. I can probably scrounge one up

i have broken the install a few times just deleting stuff. The live disk won't find my wifi card so i can't net install unless I buy an ethernet adapter.

I've never tried it but i don't see why not. Let us know what ends up working for you. Your English reads well to me.

I read through your post a few times and it seems like you want the option to use your Persistent storage or just use the stick as a default install live boot medium.

If so, have you thought about using any of the live usbs with persistence and just make multiple users. One where persistence is used and encrypted and one that does not have access to the Persistent partition?

My phone for today says 3 hours and i haven't watched any TV. So me I guess. Yesterday said 3.5 but I watched part of a baseball game so it probably totaled 4.5. I think most days I'd be under four hours of total screen time. I'd be under everyday for sure if we excepted reading. Moonreader+ has 2 of my three hours. The rest is feed reader and jerboa.

I usually use debian with x on old laptops but I've heard good things about gallium being pretty light

Thanks for the long and considered response. I did misread the post header the first time.

I think you make good points but isn't this thread about lemmy.ml and the OP on lemmy.world?