I have installed Mint 19 64 bit Cinnamon to a 16GB flash drive (stick). I can boot from the stick and Mint runs fine. When I try to install software, the installation looks normal, but it is apparently not writing to the stick. When I boot Mint later, it runs, just as before, but the software I tried to install is gone.
I have tried the stick boot on my 3 Win10 computers. On the Skylake one, and the Sandy Bridge one, the behavior is as described above. On my Haswell computer, I have not been able to boot from the stick. All three computers are running Win10 Pro, 64 bit, 16GB, Intel i7.
Is there a way I can add software to the Mint stick, so that it will save as if it were a system drive? I would like to install a couple of browsers, and two games.
Can software be saved to a bootable USB?
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lmfbr
Can software be saved to a bootable USB?
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WharfRat
Re: Can software be saved to a bootable USB?
Hello lmfbr 
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
It sounds like you're running the installation media.
The filesystem is not persistent so everything is basically lost when you shut it down.
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
It sounds like you're running the installation media.
The filesystem is not persistent so everything is basically lost when you shut it down.