I have spent over an hour trying to create a Live USB with a Linux ISO and give myself write permission. When USB Image Writer finishes the process, the User shows as Owner, but can not write to it. Unable to change being the user, I logged into root, opened Dolphin and right-clicked the flash drive, went to Permission tab, and ticked the check boxes to give all permissions to the use. I got an error saying that I don't have sufficient privileges to perform the action. I thought maybe USB Image Write made some sort of error, so I logged back into the user account and tried using ddCopy. The exact same thing happened. su chown failed, and logging in as root and trying to change it in Dolphin and using Properties -> Permissions. Since I failed twice, I did it the easy way - rebooted into Windows 10 and rewrote the flash drive using Rufus, then copied the exra files I wanted to add, and it worked. What does one have to do, logged in as user, to make a live flash drive that can be written to? This is one of the aggravating things that makes newbies think about giving up and going back to Windows because it is so difficult. The OS ix Debian-based KDE (non-systemd), but I think this problem is non-distro-specific. Background. This is not my first time trying Linux, but it has been about 15 years. I have forgotten most of what I knew, so for all practical purposes, I am a newbie again. Thank You! DaveM
I only use the download in its iso form nowadays normally with ventoys so I don't mess up with creating live usb anymore. I however don't think it is meant to be tempered with after it is made a live usb from within though what you did using is possible. For this, I frankly believe nobody using linux really cares. You learn to use it like everybody else or you don't, it doesn't matter, at all.
