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I'm an Ubuntu-user. My wife and myself have a Windows laptop from work and my kids also from school. Not to have to buy another laptop for personal use I made an Ubuntu-usb-stick to boot from any of these four available laptops. I'm not a power user. I need some office-apps, web-browser, ... . And gaming is done via Gforce-Now cloud gaming. If that makes me a noob ๐ I mostly don't have the time anymore to tinker with all this anymore. Been there, done that.
You're doing just fine. Use. The tools you want when you want.
That's nice. Be sure to set appropriate flags to mount the USB (e.g. in fstab file) to prolong it's life span. The thumb drive could deteriorate rather quickly otherwise.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_a_removable_medium#Minimizing_disk_access
Edit: typo
Reading the article, it seems like the configuration of the fstab-file needs to be done at creating the bootable usb-stick? Or can it also be modified afterwards?
I should've been more specific, the content is hidden deeper in the wiki, you have to follow the links:
To do the tune-ups, the usb drive must be unmounted. But it might not be as relevant as I thought... the same wiki entry says, that if you do 10gb of write operations per day, the USB drive (whitout tune-ups) should last you 10 years. But you still might consider disable journaling as it will speed things up (less of those costly write operations). (See "3.5 Disabling journaling" on the second link).