Portable Snakeoil :-) First test.

[agent_kith]

To simplify the install I used the full Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop image and mkusb to achieve persistence of the underlying O/S and the Snakeoil install.

Nice!

You're about 2 versions ahead of the Snakeoil roadmap. ..

But since you're already at this stage.. In theory Snakeoil will also be installed too if you decide to install that LiveCD. Making this kind of like the old ISO (But using a stock kernel instead of the custom kernel)..

The install Snakeoil from LiveCD might not work in it's current 1.2.x form though, but it's easily enough to fix (but following the old 1.1.x startup scripts).

You can also experiment the grub option "toram" (Copy the USB image into computer RAM too). So what this is doing is it's copying the entire OS into RAM, reducing latency and also means you can remove the USB after it finished booting..

For Windows users, you can also use Rufus to make a USB stick with persistent storage (persistent means any changes you make on the USB stick will not be gone after a reboot). I thought I wrote something on this in the Wiki, but it's completely blank.. Might have restored an old backup and lost that , or maybe I just havn't written anything at all. I'll lick the wiki article to this thread.
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It's great to see more and more people getting more proficient in Linux. Continue your exploration, and post how you do it in the forums, and in the Wiki. With more user participation we can move Snakeoil forward than the snail pace it's on now.