2024 was a milestone for Video Game Preservation.
With a plethora of amazing projects accomplished by us and our outstanding partners, we continue the fight to ensure your gaming legacy is safeguarded and will live forever.
Why? Because video games made us who we are today. They shaped our personal lives and had a lasting impact on the world we live in. Preserving them and their stories is of the utmost importance.
Please enjoy the recap of all the efforts made in 2024, created in collaboration with our partners—and, of course, with your support.
It features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, Stop Killing Games, The Strong National Museum of Play, Mike Arkin from Argonaut Games, Nightdive Studios, and more!
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Every effort counts, and we know that together, this is just the beginning!
Thank you for being a part of this journey.
Live environments of most distros are not meant for long term use. You will lose all your changes on boot, since they exclusively run on RAM and don't save anything on the USB.
Now, running from USB can be done, but from my understanding, USB sticks are unreliable in the long term, since they start crapping themselves from frequent write operations. There are distros designed to run from USB, like Puppy Linux, but it does come with caveats. I'd say no, it's not worth it unless you know exactly what you're doing and why.