Tails as a daily driver

### A Personal Experience Due to my occupation, I travel to different locations for work within a period of time. Currently, I have two laptops: one for work and one for personal use. My personal laptop runs Fedora 44, while the work laptop is installed with Windows 10 LTSC. However, my personal laptop is quite large and heavy, making it impractical to carry both devices with me all the time. That said, I can’t manage browsing the web or writing personal logs on a Windows machine. It just doesn’t feel right for me, given my privacy-conscious mindset. With the need to travel for work and only having one laptop to rely on, I’ve been experimenting with Tails - a Linux distribution that runs off a USB stick - as a daily driver when I’m far from home. I’ve heard about this distribution for a long time, specifically with the goal of leaving no traces on the laptop once the USB is unplugged. Yes, I know that Tails is designed to be ephemeral and not intended for long-term use. However, most of the things I want to do aren’t illegal or suspicious. I’m just browsing the internet, reading articles, writing about my days, and watching some movies online. Tails uses GNOME as its official and only desktop environment. As a Fedora user, this makes the situation easier for me. I use Fedora with plain GNOME but have an extension called Forge to handle tiling. I also created a script that uses gsettings to automate desktop configuration. So, I simply copied the script onto the USB, and run it when I open Tails. And voila! It feels just like home. To keep my configuration across Tails sessions, I need persistent storage (which, again, goes against the core philosophy of the distro). I enable persistence along with the dotfiles option to retain my config. Then, I just copy the dconf directory into the dotfiles directory. With some testing, I’ve successfully retained my configuration across sessions. The only issue I haven’t figured out yet is how to keep the wallpapers. The default wallpaper (a blue screen) is kind of driving me crazy. I also installed mpv to listen to my offline music library (stored on another encrypted USB). Tails comes with programs for normal usage, such as Tor Browser for the web, Thunderbird for email, LibreOffice as the office suite, and GIMP for photo editing. I mostly just use Tor, mpv, and vim, so that’s not a problem for me. So far, so good! However, I’m afraid there might be other issues or aspects with Tails that I haven’t come across yet. If anyone has used Tails, please share your thoughts and experiences!