PCLinuxOS: Excellent, when it's not freezing and rebooting

After reading that there's a program (MyLiveCD) for turning installations of PCLinuxOS (including all settings and added software) into ISOs (which the MX-Linux Snapshot tool does for MX-Linux installations), I decided to try PCLinux OS 2024.04 KDE, and found that it's a great distro, other than the fact that it randomly freezes and reboots. So, I investigated, and found that this has been a problem with PCLOS for years, although it obviously should never have been released with it. It's also the only distro I've seen that doesn't have an option to create an encrypted installation.

But in case you want to try it for yourself, be forewarned that if you create a live installation of PCLinuxOS on some drive, you will never be able to use that drive for anything else. The drive apparently becomes formatted with an uncrackable read-only NTFS format, supposedly to prevent anyone from tampering with the installation (as if anyone could make it any worse). This seems to imply that drives have some read-only flag in an area of memory which only special software, apparently including NTFS, can access, and that NTFS probably requires passwords to use that feature. So, if you plan on putting PCLOS on a USB drive, use a cheap disposable USB2 drive (which I fortunately always use for live installations), and don't plan on using it for anything else ever again.