Note: There are a few extra considerations when starting up the USB stick on Apple hardware. For this article we choose the Linux Mint Cinnamon edition, but in the end this depends entirely on your own preference and you can also choose another distribution, such as Ubuntu, KDE Neon, or Solus. To write the ISO file on the USB stick, we use a free and open source application called Etcher.īesides Etcher we also need a Linux distribution that we want to put on the USB stick. What do we needĪ FAT32 formatted, at least 4GB, but preferably 8GB USB memory stick. In an equivalent separate article, it is explained how this can be achieved from a Windows environment. This article will explain how a Linux USB stick can be created from a Mac environment, from which Linux can be started without installation. But even if you have made the decision to install Linux individually or next to Windows or OSX, a bootable Linux USB stick is the most practical and quick solution. It is therefore not necessary to perform a complete installation to use or try out Linux. One of the many powerful features of Linux is the ability to start a distribution directly from a USB stick, without affecting your hard drive and the operating system on it.
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