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Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a "tails like live os without tor" looks like.
The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).
Without a use case description that sounds like what you're asking for.
I'm sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.
I would like an already hardened environment from boot. That includes the kernel hardening and browser hardening that Tor has.
I get what you're saying, a live USB does 80% of that with a bit more work, but I would still like to find a solution to this out there.
If there isn't one, I'm ready to accept that and come up with my own solution.