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Linux Mint while seeing the two choices for the base being ubuntu or Debian is still about the easiest updated distro to work with having Windows users in mind when it was first seen. But the question for anything live as far as for the purpose of the guide here isn't about which programs will go on but how to use a distro for live data recovery since this thread has gone way off track.
For that there are two options being the first most commonly seen write to flash drive or burn to dvd as far as running the distro strictly live or the custom install to a flash drive which you still boot live from but can install and run various programs on where the situation may require it.
Actually about the first distro even blogged about as far as live data recovery was the Debian release of Knoppix Live for CD before that one grew in size to become Live for DVD. With Portable VBox it was possible to see Knoppix installed to a flash drive while that is one without any installer of it's own.