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 ====== Linux ======
-Linux offers another way to use your computer.    From the perspective of use in the Help Center, it can be used in troubleshooting activities.   If a PC with Windows will not boot or exhibits strange behavior, it may be possible to boot Linux.   Why would you do that?   The ability to boot Linux from a USB device might demonstrate that the hardware of the PC is OK.    If Linux will boot, you can use programs that operate with Linux to interrogate the condition of the HD in the PC.
+Linux offers another way to use your computer. From the perspective of use in the Help Center, it can be used in troubleshooting activities. If a PC with Windows will not boot or exhibits strange behavior, it may be possible to boot Linux. Why would you do that? The ability to boot Linux from a USB device might demonstrate that the hardware (except the hard drive) of the PC is OK. If Linux will boot, from a usb thumb drive, you can use programs (Gsmartcontrol, file manager, ddrescue ) to interrogate the condition of the hard drive in the PC.
-Having a USB device that contains linux requires some preperation.    There are mutliple ways to construct  a bootable thumb drive that contains Linux.    [[https://www.pendrivelinux.com/|Pendrivelinux.com]] offers methods of building a thumb drive that can boot multiple instances of Linux and other utilities from one thumb drive.    Using the Yumi programs from PendriveLinux allows a single USB stick to contain installable instances of Windows and Linux.
+Having a USB device that contains Linux requires some preparation. There are multiple ways to construct a bootable thumb drive that contains Linux. [[https://www.pendrivelinux.com/|Pendrivelinux.com]] offers methods of building a thumb drive that can boot multiple instances of Linux and other utilities from one thumb drive. Using the [[https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/|Yumi]] programs from PendriveLinux you can construct a USB stick that contains installable instances of Windows and Linux. Yumi allows for the allocation of persistent storage for a bootable instance of Linux. [[https://rufus.ie|Rufus]] is another of the tools that can be used to burn an "iso with persistence" to a thumb drive.  [[https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html|Ventoy]] is similar but not the same as Yumi.  Ventoy provides the ability to have a USB with multiple "iso files" and boot from any of the iso's on the USB.   You create a Ventoy USB and then copy ISO files to the USB.   My opinion...   Ventoy USB's are easier to use and maintain compared to Yumi based USB's.
-This item at [[https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/|TecMint]] identifies how to build/construct an instance of linux on a thumb drive that offers persistence.    Basically it is a live Linux on a stick that works like the HD in your PC.   You can do this with a thumb drive as small as 16 gigabytes.
+This item at [[https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/|TecMint]] identifies how to build/construct an instance of Linux on a thumb drive that offers persistence. Basically it is a live Linux on a stick that functions like a hard drive installation. You can do this with a thumb drive. Some versions of linux will easily fit on an 8 gigabyte thumb drive. If you buy a thumb drive, make sure it is a USB 3.0 drive. USB 3.0 is noticeably faster than previous versions.