@anderslund thank you! yes i discovered that interesting idea, & i was able to create the #kdelinux overlay. my problem was --& i feel embarrassed coz the following prolly indicates a massive ignorance of basic pkg management on my part-- i then could not understand how to use that overlay directory. what i mean is, if i could place an apps' binary executable file there [which for example in a mutable system i might install to /opt/, eg, ] , then it would run fine. but in the case of my desired #Windscribe #VPN app, i do not already have the binary, only the installer pkg that would, in a mutable system, end up creating & installing the binary. i feel like the answer must be staring me in the face, but so far i'm too silly to see it.

@anderslund that's great to hear.

for me, apart from the manual partitioning, the other issue i couldn't solve, was there being no way afaict to install my #Windscribe #VPN app in it, given #kdelinux has no equivalent to #Kinoite's "overlay" paradigm. if i could find solutions to both these remaining showstoppers [i already had progressively solved all my other issues] i would rush back to KDELinux in a heartbeat.

@anderslund noice! happy to see your tag #kdelinux there! i have it in a couple of #QEMU VMs, & ran it as my third-boot on my main pc for some weeks earlier in its Alpha, but eventually replaced it with #Kinoite [whence i post this]. once it reaches Beta [when i hope they have fixed the current inability to install with manual partitioning], i plan to put it back onto one of my SSDs to be my 4th-boot.

am itching to return to my 1st-boot, #ArchLinux, but can't really do so til whatever recent bug is fixed that weirdly broke #wireguard protocol in my #VPN app. 🤯

aren't we just so very lucky to have these magnificent #FOSS gifts!!!

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