What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer.

Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.

Also, in order to run Linux from your USB drive, your BIOS will have to support booting from your USB device, but most newer computers will be able to do this.

Ubuntu 8.10 doesn't contain much in the 'wow' department, but it does come with a USB installation wizard as standard.

That’s it for now! These options—especially booting from USB devices—should pave the way for a whole new generation of easier-to-use full Linux systems for Chromebooks.

Linux can be run with the simple click of a button while another operating system like Microsoft Windows is running in the background. Oracle VM or other virtual machine software can be used to ...

Note that yes, you can absolutely choose a non-Ubuntu distribution such as Linux Mint or Manjaro as long as it supports booting from a Live USB. Most popular distributions do.

Worried over malicious USB sticks? Linux has you covered with USBGuard.

Do you want to run a full Linux desktop installation on your Chromebook without giving up ChromeOS? This alteration will give you access to both complete operating systems running simultaneously so ...