Yeah, but we can guess. Most people probably work on one or maybe two computers with Puppy. Why would they NOT use the persistent storage feature of Puppy? Because they enjoy setting up their networking over and over? Boy, the Network Wizard must be a lot of fun, if they like to do that. And without persistent storage, there is no saving of browser bookmarks or emails or anything else like that.It always surprises me when people on this Forum claim to know how everyone else uses Puppy. You don't know, I don't know,
Even if people who boot pfix=ram all the time were as high as 10% (very doubtful - not even you do it all the time), you are still ignoring 90% of the users with your solution.
Q.E.D., Puppy is really like any other linux distro with respect to security; it is not read-only (except with the quibble, if that it is, about root logins).