brent Burn a usb stick with xfce iso then off to the races with the Latutude?
Exactly. It's almost impossible to buy a 2 GB flash drive anymore, so I have a few on hand that are plenty big enough for Solus "live" .ISOs. I burned one with Etcher, and used that to boot the Latitude. From there, it was all down hill. As I said, I chose the option to use the whole disk, and swap and hibernate as well.
The only thing keeping me from using it as a daily driver as an alternative to my Plasma Latitude is a problem getting my multi-device Bluetooth keyboard working with it. (Can pair, and connect, but not work.) That's a work in progress for now. (My multi-device Bluetooth mouse works fine, jusst not the keyboard.) TraceyC just got a keyboard like mine for testing, and I'm hoping for a fix Real Soon Now.
You kidded me once about when I was going to start using Xfce in place of Plasma, and I didn't take you seriously at the time. But by now it doesn't sound like such an outlandish idea at all. Some of its utilities are the best I've ever seen - just wait 'til the first time you use the Xfce Screenshot utility.
Right now my two Latitudes are set up identically - same top panel, same workspaces, same applications, similar dock - and it's hard to tell them apart, except for that Bluetooth issue.