Keeping a bootable USB of the current operating system is just a basic tier of protection. It brings a false sense of confidence that one day, when your computer cannot load the OS, you can use the ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Razvan ...

If you choose to create a bootable USB stick, you have to use a dedicated piece of software such as Universal USB Installer or Rufus. Otherwise, you have to burn the image to a disk Boot to live ...

There's an easy way to experiment and answer those questions: taking a Linux operating system for a test drive without making any harmful changes to your PC. If you're thinking of switching to Linux ...

Rufus is a free, portable utility that creates bootable USB flash drives from ISO files. As of 2026, the latest version is Rufus 4.13 — and it’s faster and more capable than ever, with built-in ...