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This excellent tutorial in the Ubuntu MATE community provides step-by-step instructions for using UNetbootin to create a "live" USB drive: " How to use Unetbootin." Raspberry Pi Imager - not just for the Raspberry Pi anymore!Īnother sometimes overlooked tool created for creating bootable SD cards for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer is the Raspberry Pi Imager. UNetbootin step-by-stepĪ popular cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) app for creating a "live" USB drive is UNetbootin. Here is a link to the official step-by-step instructions for creating an Ubuntu MATE bootable USB stick using the Disks application that comes provided with many Linux distributions. Creating Linux bootable USB media from Linux computers This should work whether you are installing Ubuntu or another distributions of Linux. Here, also, is a link to the official Ubuntu/Canonical method for " Creating a bootable USB stick on Windows" using a tool called Rufus. This article from the Ubuntu MATE website describes using balenaEtcher on Windows or balenaEtcher on macOS to create bootable USB media. Most likely, if you are considering a switch to Linux, you are using Windows. Creating Linux bootable USB media from Windows or macOS computers For information on how to make a CD or DVD for installation using Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, see the " Imaging a USB Drive" article. The quickest and easiest method of installation is to use a USB drive ("thumb drive," "pen drive" or "USB stick.") You can also use a CD or DVD to install Linux, but this method is recommended only for older computers or where the computer can not be configured to boot from a USB device. When you shut down and remove the "live" media, your computer is back to normal.

This allows you to try Llinux on your computer without installing, and without changing anything at all on your computer.

Installable media is often referred to as "live" media because using this method you run the Linux distribution directly from the media, live.

This article provides guidance on how to create the installation media (CD, DVD or USB device) that will allow you to do just that.