Information Current favorite distro, live preferred

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plodr

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I'm always looking for a live distro to try.
My current favorite is LXLE Desktop.
http://www.lxle.net/

Though the past week, at another forum, someone got me to try Simplicity, which has Puppy as its basis.
It connected so much easier than past Puppy versions I've tried. It also got the video correct. I've had trouble with that in the past.
Another big plus, when you shut down for the first time, it offers to create a persistence folder. I don't want to have to start from square one every time I boot up from my USB stick. Being able to save bookmarks, addons and plugins is a must if I choose to use a live stick.
The browser, FF, comes with two addons installed an adblocker (can't remember if it is AdblockPlus or uBlockOrigin because I use both - not together) and LastPass.
 
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Running my first Linux main boot with Windows 10 as secondary. Hated standard Debian. Love XFCE Debian. Have my eyes set on something Ubuntu based now, but only for testing on a VM for now. Took me 5 clean installs to get my custom component drivers installed properly on Debian. Not doing that again for a while.
 
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Voyaguer -X here. It´s Xubuntu More beautiful and with better performance and Manjaro Xfce. Lately I'm using Mint Cinnamon and i love it. I am very comfortable with the 3, but I do not decide which I will eliminate if Voyaguer or Mint. I do not think it's okay to have two *ubuntu on my system
 
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I´m a .deb guy, Xubuntu, Mint Cinnamon and Zorin are my choices. Sometimes I "play" with Debian and rarely I enjoy Opensuse, yes it´s out of my comfort zone, but Yast is really great
 
At home
Mint 18.2 Sonya Cinammon x64 on a HP 6910p
Mint 18.2 Sonya Xfce x32 on SAMSUNG NC10 NetBook
Raspbian on Raspberry Pi (but will try Ubuntu Mate soon)

At work
Live Mint 18.2 Sonya Xfce x32 with 8GB persistence for testing hardware
Live Kali 32 bit Light for registering LOM MAC Addresses
 
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I am pretty sure OpenSuse has a live version still.. Overall it is still my favorite Linux Distro. As someone else stated, YaST is amazing.
 
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