Recently, I've been wanting to make a custom live iso with a couple of tools that I need but I really don't know where to start or what to do… any help?
E: I didn't phrase my post correctly, I need a portable set of desktop tools for development, running on the gnome desktop
Yes, this does work, however there doesn’t seem to be a way to strip out the installer (since I won’t be installing from that ISO) or change desktop settings from a graphical environment… any way to do that?
Use the live version (thd try without installing option). You can also remove the installer code if you really want to - I think Ubuntu uses ubiquity/subiquity.