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Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Want to try or install a Linux distribution (distro) on your computer? Making a bootable flash drive with an image of the distro is the simplest route these days. I've done it dozens of times, and ...