Sorry for the delay, but I have problems downloading things due to my small Internet bandwidth. There are things in the download queue that are first, and this one has to wait its turn: as it is, I have an old laptop as file server doing downloads 24*7 at about 80% of my internet capacity; the remaining 20% is for browsing and email and the rest. I'm a happy user of the 13.1 XFCE rescue image, I recommend it often to people asking. Yes, the persistent filesystem works in 13.1. I store some files, configuration, and I have installed some packages. YaST package manager currently fails, I don't remember if it worked previously. Instead I download the rpm and install it with "rpm". I will certainly test the 13.2 image when I manage to download it.