alma VS arch-install

Check out ALMA for creating a bootable USB with preset files for custom packages.

I'm a big fan of this project for managing portable arch installs: https://github.com/r-darwish/alma

This above wiki led me to ALMA https://github.com/r-darwish/alma

Something like this would work to setup a portable USB install: https://github.com/r-darwish/alma. You can install whichever DE you want on top of that.

I'd recommend Arch Linux for developers.

It takes a little bit of set-up / learning at the start. But you can easily try it out with a tool like ALMA - https://github.com/r-darwish/alma

See my preset files here - https://github.com/jamesmcm/arch-i3-usb

But PopOS is probably the closest to the previous beginner Ubuntu experience now.

As a bonus for the only thing I can possibly think your trying to do, here is ALMA, the lazy man's Arch Linux Mobile Appliance(usb) creator.

I've used alma to make portable Arch installs for a couple of years with good results. Maybe give that a try if you can't sort the issues with your current portable install.

You can use ALMA to create a persistent USB disk - https://github.com/r-darwish/alma

I'd recommend checking out ALMA for creating pre-configured, persistent USB installations. Here is my collection of preset files.

Although I like the project and look forward to testing it (and possibly switching over), I really don't like that Alma already is the name of a linux distro (https://github.com/r-darwish/alma).

My script asks for all the questions at the start (username, password, drives, and such) and then you can walk away and it'll be done. If you want, you can modify my own. I think it's not too hard to understand, and the readme explains how it works and what you should change, so you can give it a go: https://github.com/tralph3/arch-install

In case you want to check how this works: Arch install script, dotfiles.

So, basically, I did a very easy to use and highly customizable Arch installation script. If you want to use it yourself, you will have to modify some things. Everything is explained in the readme. https://github.com/tralph3/arch-install

Hope you like it, I want to know what you think about it. https://github.com/tralph3/arch-install/

I also made an install script, although honestly, it's tailored for my personal use, but it is kinda flexible (not a lot mind you).

BTW, in case you care, in my arch install script I have listed all the KDE packages I actually care about, in case you want/need a KDE install that's not so minimal it lacks features, but also not super bloated: https://github.com/tralph3/arch-install/blob/master/packages.sh

The script is designed to make a GPT partitioning scheme with kde plasma. Here's how it looks: https://github.com/tralph3/arch-install/blob/master/install.sh