I’ve been using Linux Mint exclusively for a year and a half now, and I’ve gotten pretty used to the ecosystem, but I don’t want to have to wait another year for them to implement HDR support for video playback. I also don’t want to go through the effort of fully swapping distros (don’t have time to completely reorganize my workflow at the moment, etc.).

Does anyone have a recommendation for a distro that I could run in RAM from a USB stick with an up-to-date version of KDE Plasma or another DE when I want to watch HDR movies?

Or, if I’m overthinking this and there’s another obvious, simpler solution, please feel free to let me know that as well.

Edit: I thought about running Alpine Linux in RAM, but I’d have to reinstall Plasma every time I rebooted since I’m pretty sure it doesn’t come with a DE by default.

Edit 2: Thanks for all of the helpful comments everyone! For those asking, live USB are usually pretty slow and clunky in my experience when they run from the USB stick, and I wasn’t sure if that would interfere with video playback.

I think I’m just going to try a KDE Neon live USB and see if I can get HDR video working that way, without trying to run it from RAM. Thanks again!

  • ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8·
    15 hours ago

    You know you can just install a distro to a usb stick like any other harddrive. Why the need to run it entirely in ram?

  • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Fedora has a kernel parameter that makes it run in RAM. You just need to add rd.live.ram=1 to the kernel line in GRUB.

    • hakase@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Since Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, I’m pretty sure it only has access to KDE 5.7 in apt, not 6, so I still won’t be able to use HDR.

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    18 hours ago

    There are three solutions to this problem :

    1. Ditch Linux Mint and go distrohopping (though not recommended)
    2. Install Fedora in a VM then through it, install fedora persistent on a usb stick (easiest, but I don’t know if fedora supports HDR)
    3. Put archlinux live on a usb then reformat the usb and install a bootable arch distribution on it. (Hardest, but most functional)
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    I was immediately thinking about Suse Studio, but that service has radically changed since I last used it back in 2009/2010

  • isgleas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    14 hours ago

    I am not sure if your usecase can be fulfilled with dristrobox, it may be worth to try

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    16 hours ago

    What you could do is set up a chroot jail and use debootstrap to create a bootstrap system. Then put the sources.list for Debian Sid and run apt install kde-plasma-desktop

    Mount /proc and /dev in the chroot jail.

    Then go to a text terminal (alt-f3) and stop your login manager service.

    Chroot into your debian sid chroot and start the x server with start (I think)

    These steps might not work but it’s kind of a roadmap of how i would do it.