

In Ubuntu ('family' systems including Xubuntu) version 16.04 LTS and newer you can use the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator alias usb-creator-gtk. It is read-only and the drive cannot be used for anything else, but can be restored to a storage device afterwards. So please copy the file(s) from the drive to some other drive, using another computer, if you have no working computer now.ĭo you intend to use this USB drive only during a short period of time in order to install Xubuntu into your computer? In this case I suggest that you make a simple cloned system. But you should not have any other file on it, at least not when you make it a USB boot drive. There are tools for installing an iso file into a USB drive in order to make it a USB boot drive with Ubuntu. Installation/FromUSBStick#Booting_the_Computer_from_USB Then again.on my own PC, I've also not had Windows 10 go bad at all either, really.See this link and links from it for details about booting from USB,



If an update messes something up, it has almost always just been a kernel the last kernel from before the update, and it's back to normal in 30 seconds. I've never had Linux go 'bad' ONCE on me since I started using it in 2012 unless it was from a change I made as a user somehow (and changes like that have caused issues have been VERY rare). Lost many icons but never a driver.I've had mom using Linux Mint as well on her laptop for the last 6 years and she loves it. Because they never touch something that works. the computer spend 2 months in intensive care then 1 year of periodic Physiotherapy to bring it at a satisfying workable state.Īnd most of the time they suffer from Hardware failure. She suffered atrociously from everything that was there the last 10 years and was "gone". I had to replace my moms Computer at some point. Also you think about her, and you tell yourself, why didn't it last.
