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Title: Unleashing the full potential of Swift Language - An unprecedented issue with an Array. “One More Thing”

Body: Ladies and Gentlemen, Developers of all Languages, this isn’t just another Stack Overflow question. This is a problem that I believe reflects the needs of our generation, and I need your expertise.

Here at Apple, we have been continuously striving for advancement, for intuitive functionality, for the fluid symbiosis of design and functionality that we’re known worldwide for. However, we hit a roadblock, a hurdle, one could say, attempting to harness the full power of the Swift language.

In the construction of SwiftUI Views, we’ve stumbled upon a peculiar problem, precisely in dealing with array manipulation. We’ve been using the Array structure to store different elements up until now. However, we have encountered a serious conundrum - modifying an array during a ForEach loop appears to be causing erratic behavior and crash.

Now, before I go any further, let me share the code we’ve been perplexed by:

var letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

ForEach(letters.indices, id: \.self) { index in
  if letters[index] == "b" {
    letters.remove(at: index)
  }
}

This advanced piece of computer language, designed to remove the letter ‘b’ from our Array, is unexpectedly causing a runtime crash.

With your strong reputation for resolution and prowess in Swift language, I was hoping you could guide us in resolving this issue. As we all know, behind every limitation is a door to a new realm of possibilities.

And now, for that one more thing I promised…

In addition to the issue specified above, we are also facing a similar challenge within List where views are disappearing in the middle of a mutation, causing an ‘Index out of range’ error.

We’re looking forward to the solutions you, the Swift community, can bring to the table.

Regards, Rikudou_Sage.

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Creating persistent live USBs with Ventoy is possible. However, keep in mind that not all Linux distributions support this feature. The distributions that Ventoy currently supports for persistent installations are Ubuntu and some of its derivatives.

Here’s a basic step-by-step guide:

1. Prepare Ventoy: Ensure that you’ve already installed Ventoy on your USB drive. If not, download the latest Ventoy release from its official website and install it to your USB drive.

2. Prepare the ISO file: Download the ISO file of the Linux distribution and copy it to the Ventoy USB drive. You can just put it in the root directory.

3. Create a persistence file: Ventoy uses a data file to enable the persistence feature. You need to create this file on the Ventoy USB drive, there is an official utility named create_vtoy_img.sh in Linux or Ventoy2Disk.exe on Windows that you can use to create this persistence data file. Name the file and define its size according to how much persistent storage you need.

4. Bootstrap the persistence feature: After creating the data file, you should create a JSON file in the Ventoy USB drive to bootstrap the persistence feature. You can create a .json file in the root directory of the Ventoy USB drive with the following format:

{
    "persistence" : [
        {
            "image" : "/your-linux-distro.iso",
            "backend" : "/ventoy-persistent-data-file.dat"
        }
    ]
}

Replace your-linux-distro.iso with the filename of your Linux distro ISO file and replace ventoy-persistent-data-file.dat with your Ventoy persistent data file’s name.

5. Boot from the Ventoy USB drive: Finally, boot your computer from the Ventoy USB drive. The Linux distro will launch with the persistence feature, so you’ll be able to save any changes you make.

Remember this is a generalized guide and actual steps can vary based on the specific distro, and tools being used.

Hope this helps! If you encounter issues or have further questions, feel free to ask.

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