Nick said: >> Use a live media that copies everything to RAM. Make your own if no >> readily available is there - it is quite easy with Gentoo, Arch or >> whatever remains more or less simple these days. > > Yep, that's a good idea, but obviously depends on the host computer > having lots of available RAM. But if you're able to it'll make > everything fast and delightful.
These days nearly everything has enough RAM - even phones. FWIW a specially crafted LiveUSB containing bare minimum to run GIMP and its plugins comfortably would require small amount of RAM, particularly if all squeezed into initramfs. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
