Poor Man's Install of Latest Knoppix

[ICPUG]

As backup to my 'fact' I refer Capricorny to the question:

Knoppix is a distribution designed to be booted straight from portable media such as USB devices, CDs and DVDs, is this correct?

In the interview with Klaus Knopper last September, here:
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/09/the-klaus-knopper-interview.html

While it may be true that to install to an NTFS partition is not completely safe because Microsoft may come along and nuke it in a service update I have not had a problem with this. Guess it depends how paranoid you are about Microsoft.

[Capricorny]

As backup to my 'fact' I refer Capricorny to the question:

Knoppix is a distribution designed to be booted straight from portable media such as USB devices, CDs and DVDs, is this correct?

In the interview with Klaus Knopper last September, here:
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/09/the-klaus-knopper-interview.html

While it may be true that to install to an NTFS partition is not completely safe because Microsoft may come along and nuke it in a service update I have not had a problem with this. Guess it depends how paranoid you are about Microsoft.

Well, if you think Klaus K's answer backs up your stance, I would say you are over- or mis-interpreting quite a lot. In that interview, Klaus K talks very precisely about what Knoppix is optimized for, not what it is capable of. Which is something rather different. (And that he doesn't mention running from harddisk media, "Poor Man's Install", is a pedagogical concern, to avoid confusion.)
Unlike you, he does not advise against Knoppix installs. On the contrary, he mentions situations where it may come in handy. With changes in hardware and Knoppix moving ever closer to standard Debian, I don't think there is any good reason today for general advice against "alternative" uses of Knoppix. Many of the traditional drawbacks of Knoppix are of little practical relevance today, and what now stands out as the most important limitation for me and many other users, is the lack of a pure 64 bit version. But, again, running a hybrid system with a 64 bits kernel helps enormously.

I'm not at all paranoid about Microsoft, I have not said anything against Poor Man's Installs on Windows media (using it several times myself). My concern was that best practice is placing alle the booting stuff on a separate (Linux) partition whenever possible. If you disagree to that, please tell us why, instead of misinterpreting me.