The #NetBSD Project offers a live image for AMD64 that includes X11 and features persistence.
Why does nobody ever talk about this?
I put this image on a USB drive, booted it, logged in as root (no password needed), created a user account, started X, configured the network, and i everything was still there after a reboot.
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/images/11.0/NetBSD-11.0-amd64-live.img.gz
@passthejoe It's probably one of the coolest things about linux, BSD etc. Booting off of a live image is a great noncommittal way to try a distro and I remember doing it a lot back in the day. (and I really should look into BSD, thanks for the reminder).